Background
Okress, Ernest Carl was born on March 9, 1910 in Hamtramck, Michigan, United States. Son of Ernest Steven and Emilie (Schvanner) Okress.
Okress, Ernest Carl was born on March 9, 1910 in Hamtramck, Michigan, United States. Son of Ernest Steven and Emilie (Schvanner) Okress.
Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, U. Detroit, 1935; Master of Science, University of Michigan, 1940; postgraduate, New York University, 1946-1948; postgraduate, New York University, 1946-1948; postgraduate, Polytechnic U., 1951-1953; postgraduate, Schlumberger Ltd., 1972-1974; Doctor of Science, Sussex (England) College Technology, 1974.
Advisory engineer, manager, Microwave Center, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Bloomfield, New Jersey and Elmira, New York, 1940-1959;
senior research engineer, Sperry Gyroscope Company, Great Neck, New York, 1959-1962;
manager plasma physics, research division, American Standard, Inc., Piscataway, New Jersey, 1962-1968;
senior engineer consultant, SFD laboratories, Inc. subsidiary Varian Associates, Union, New Jersey, 1968;
senior physicist, member science staff, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, 1968-1970;
senior research scientist, Cons. Seversky Electron-Atom Corporation, Garden City, New York, 1970;
senior research physicist, Electronic Medical Record division Schlumberger, Ltd., Princeton, New Jersey, 1970-1972;
construction engineering, Electronic Medical Record division Schlumberger, Ltd., Princeton, New Jersey, 1972-1974;
construction engineering, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, 1972;
construction engineering, Princeton Electron Products, 1972-1974;
construction engineering, USDA, 1968-1974;
senior physicist-engineer, General Electric Company, Space Sciences Laboratory, Valley Forge Space Center, 1974-1975;
private practice as construction engineering, 1988-1989. Consultant physicist General Electric Company, 1975-1977, University City Science Center, 1977-1978.
Consultant, principal scientist Franklin Research Center division Arvin/Calspan Corporation, Philadelphia, 1978-1988. Teacher United States Office Education, 1943.
Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, American Physical Society. Member New York Academy of Sciences (invited member), Sigma Xi.