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Teresa Pace, Ph.D. |
An engineering leader with academic, government, and industrial experience in transitioning high-tech sensors to real-world applications is serving as director of ICAMR’s Institute Materials and Manufacturing (ISIMM).
Teresa Pace previously worked for L-3 Communications, US Army’s Night Vision Lab, and Lockheed Martin Corp. She is helping ICAMR align its cutting edge sensor technologies with the significant funding opportunities such as the 2016 Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology initiative to develop a National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NMMI).
The ISIMM is a membership-based public private partnership that works with industry and academia to design and fabricate advanced imagers and sensors for a range of industrial and specialty products and services.
Pace has worked as a principal systems engineer, director of engineering and chief engineer for industry as well as a subject matter expert.
She has been a leader and a role model throughout her career. At The Pennsylvania State University, where she received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Pace also served as a faculty researcher for the Applied Research Laboratory. She has 14 patents and over 60 technical papers.
She is a Fellow of IEEE, President of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (AESS) and is a past Editor-in-Chief for their magazine. She has also been an Associate Editor for Machine Vision and Applications Journal and previously served on HKN's Board of Governors.
In addition, Pace is a member of IEEE’s Women in Engineering (WIE) society, IEEE's Signal Processing society and a life member of the HKN Engineering Honor Society. She was awarded the Lockheed Martin Nova Award for Outstanding Individual Technical Excellence, the highest technical award given by the Lockheed Martin Corporation, and Lockheed Martin's Apex Individual Contributor Award.