, a professor of mechanical engineering and director of Vanderbilt鈥檚聽聽(IMS) graduate program, has been elected to the grade of Fellow of SPIE. Fellows are Members of distinction who have made significant scientific and technical contributions in the multidisciplinary fields of optics, photonics, and imaging.聽Dr. Caldwell聽is honored for聽his technical achievement and for聽his service to the general optics community and to SPIE in particular.
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