Douglas S. Goodman

Adjunct Faculty Member

Phone: (585) 943-4519
E-mail: dougoodmad@gmail.com

Short Biography
Douglas Goodman received a Ph.D. in Optics in 1979 from the University of Arizona Optical Sciences Center, where his advisor was Roland Shack. He then joined IBM Research in Yorktown Hts., New York. After leaving IBM in 1993, and he began work in the Polaroid Optical Engineering department. In 2002, he joined Corning Tropel, where he is a Senior Scientist. He is interested in education and in the organization of knowledge for more efficient learning and the power of demonstrations to arouse curiosity. He has been active in the Optical Society of America and SPIE, and is a fellow of both. He has taught a number of different full day and half day professional short courses. He wrote two book chapters "Survey of Optical Instruments," in Geometrical and Instrumental Optics and "Geometrical Optics," in Handbook of Optics, as well as various papers and talks. He is especially interested in overhead projectors and their use in optics demonstrations. He has done numerous presentations in this manner and has written a book Optics Demonstrations with the Overhead Projector. He received the 2001 OSA Esther Hoffman Beller Award for outstanding contributions to optical science and engineering education. The areas in which he has worked include image formation, illumination, photolithography, phaseshifting masks, alignment, metrology, optical inspection, machine vision, microscopy, optical testing, laser ablation, focus sensing, laser print heads, optomechanics, optical systems engineering, and the theory of classical optics. He is not related to Joe Goodman.