Professor Curtis Robert Menyuk

About

I am the founding member of the Electrical Engineering Program at UMBC; I am a Fellow of APS, OSA, IEEE; I won the 2013 IEEE Photonics Streifer Award, a 2015 Humboldt Award, the 2024 SPIE G. G. Stokes Award, and a USM 2025 Regents Scholarly Achievement Award. I am currently director of the Center for Time, Navigation and Frequency Research.

Research interests

Optical communications, nonlinear optics, lasers, optical resonators, time and frequency

Teaching interests

engineering mathematics and computation; electromagnetic theory and computation; nonlinear optics, lasers, and RF photonics; time and frequency generation, transmission, and measurement.

Education

  • Ph D, PhysicsUniversity of California, Los Angeles (1981)
    Nonlinear Evolution of an Obliquely Propagating Langmuir Wave
  • BS, PhysicsMassachusetts Institute of Technology (1976)
  • MS, PhysicsMassachusetts Institute of Technology (1976)