Professor James Licari

James J. Licari, Ph.D.
jlicari@sikorsky.com
1334 Sturges Highway
Westport, CT 06880
(203) 255-7569

EDUCATION
B.S., Physics, The City College of the City University of New York, 1969
M.S., Physics, Pennsylvania State University, 1971
Ph.D., Physics, Pennsylvania State University, 1974
M.S., Computer Science, Stevens Institute of Technology, 1984

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Spring 1999-Present
Adjunct Professor of Physics, Fairfield University, BEI School of Engineering,  North Benson Rd., Fairfield, CT 06430-5195. 
Teaching PS-15 (Mechanics) and PS-16 (Electricity and Magnetism).

September 1977-June 1979
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Manhattan College, Riverdale, NY
Taught and conducted research in solid state physics.
Courses taught:  
- First and second year physics, lecture and problems sessions;
- Electricity and Magnetism (senior level course).

September 1976 -August 1977
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware. Member of the Graduate School Faculty. Taught and conducted research in solid state physics.
Courses taught:  
- First year physics, lecture and problems sessions;
- "Light, Lasers, Cameras, and Perception"  (for non-science students);
- Solid State Physics (graduate level course).

September 1974 -August 1976
Research Fellow, International Center for Theoretical Solid State Physics, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium
Conducted research in solid state physics.

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
August 1984 -Present
Sikorsky Aircraft,  6900 Main Street, Stratford, CT 06601-1381
Currently Software Certification Engineer on the S-92 Helibus program. Held positions as Staff Engineer, Chief of Systems Integration (Airborne Low
Frequency Sonar Program), and Software Manager (RAH-66 Comanche Helicopter Program).

June 1979-July 1984
The Singer Co., Kearfott Division, 1150 McBride Ave., Little Falls, NJ  07424
Senior Engineer.  Developed navigation and Kalman filtering software.

PUBLICATIONS
- James J. Licari and George D. Whitfield, Physical Review B9, 1432 (1974),
"Anisotropic Piezoelectric Polaron."
- James J. Licari and Roger Evrard, Physical Review B15, 2254 (1977),
"Electron-Phonon Interaction in a Dielectric Slab:  Effect of the Electronic
Polarizability."
- James J. Licari, Solid State Communications, 29, 625 (1979), "Polaron Self-
Energy in a Finite Dielectric."

MEMBERSHIPS
American Physical Society