Andrew Sarangan is a professor and associate director of the Electro-Optics Graduate Program at the University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio. Dr. Sarangan’s current research interests include semiconductor optoelectronics, nanofabrication, and computational electromagnetics. He has developed graduate courses in nanofabrication,nanophotonics, optical thin films, and integrated optics. He is a senior member of the IEEE and the SPIE and a registered professional engineer in the state of Ohio. He is also an accomplished pilot and a certificated flight instructor.