W. CHARLES SYMONS, III

3508 Newport Dr.
Lexington, Kentucky, 40517
Work: (606) 257-5175
E-mail: symons@engr.uky.edu

Research Interests:

Current projects include designing, building and modeling a Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscope (NSOM). Goals for this project are to utilize a the NSOM instrument in conjunction with a tuneable Near-Infrared source to collect Near-IR images of samples over time in order to determine chemical changes due to stimulus.

Education:

Present	Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
August 1995	M.S. Electrical Engineering University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
December 1992	B.S. Electrical Engineering North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina.

Professional Experience:

University of Kentucky Applied Spectroscopy Research Group Lexington, KY 6/93 to present	Research Assistant: Work experience includes near-infrared spectroscopy, remote sensing, computer modeling, computer interfacing, computer programming, and instrumentation development.
University of Kentucky Department of Electrical Engineering Lexington, KY 1/93 to 5/93	Teaching Assistant: Responsibilities included grading papers as well as holding office hours in order to help students with problems.
NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA 8/91 to 12/91	Co-op Student: Work experience included learning and evaluating the Verilog Hardware Design Language (HDL) as well as interfacing to an Intel 80386 microprocessor.
NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA 1/91 to 5/91	Co-op Student: Work experience included fabricating a printed circuit board, testing laser diodes, and researching and developing better Relative Intensity Noise (RIN) receiver designs.
NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA 5/90 to 8/90	Co-op Student: Work experience included creating a circuit to produce nulling voltages, interfacing this circuitry to a computer, and writing a program to control the nulling voltage circuitry.
NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA 8/89 to 12/89	Co-op Student: Work experience included breadboarding, drawing schematic diagrams, and some design work.

Honors, Activities, and Skills:

Computational Science Fellowship Award (January 1996-June 1997).
Graduated Magna Cum Laude from North Carolina State University.
Member of Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society.
Member of Eta Kappa Nu Electrical Engineering Honor Society. President 1995-1996.
Computer Experience: C,C++,Fortran, Basic, Pascal, Verilog HDL, Asyst, Assembly, Matlab, Mathematica, Speakeasy, SAS, Mac OS, Microsoft DOS/Windows, UNIX, and Vax.

Papers and Special Projects:

Paper presentation 3/7/96, " Near-Infrared Scanning Near-Field Microscopic Imaging," Pittsburgh Conference 1996.
Paper presentation 3/8/95, "Scanning Near-Field Near-IR Microscopy," Pittsburgh Conference 1995.
Paper presentation 3/4/94, "New Instruments for Magnetohydrodynamic Acoustic- Resonance Near-Infrared Spectrometry," Pittsburgh Conference 1994.
Motorola 68HC11 design contest.
Artificial retina senior design project.

Personal Interests:

Computers, soccer, jogging, basketball, camping, and automobiles.