The
Boeing Company
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Seattle,
WA 98177
(425)
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1010
Northwest 175th Street
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Mr. Ellersick, born and raised in Northeastern
Washington, first attended Pacific Lutheran University and finished a BS in
Electrical Engineering at Washington State University in 1983. He has been with The Boeing Company ever
since. In 1987, he completed an MS
degree in Physics at the University of Washington. He is a licensed Professional Electrical Engineer in the State of
Washington and is a Certified Lighting Efficiency Professional from the
Association of Energy Engineers. Steve
is a member of the Society for Information Display (SID), Council for Optical Radiation
Measurements (CORM), International Commission on Illumination (CIE), and
National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE).
From 1984 to 1986, Mr. Ellersick was an
Electromagnetic Compatibility Engineer with Boeing Military Airplanes where he
performed electromagnetic effects analyses on the B-1B avionics system and its
interfaces. He designed and developed
test equipment that was successfully used for the B-1B system electromagnetic
compatibility test. A paper on this
work was published in the 1985 IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic
Compatibility.
Between
1986-1990, Steve entered a different spectrum of the electromagnetic region and
worked as an Optical and Infrared Engineer in Boeing Advanced Systems. He was the principal investigator and
project technical leader responsible for research and development of visual and
infrared experimental and theoretical analytic techniques. Mr. Ellersick designed new low observable
visual and infrared signature technology.
He was prime contributor to design and create a new Boeing Infrared/Optical
Laboratory. He designed, developed, and
conducted optical and infrared radiometric experiments and predictions to study
optical and infrared phenomenology of materials, the environment, sensors, and
air vehicles. In 1988, Mr. Ellersick was
awarded Boeing’s Outstanding Employee of the Year for efforts to define
requirements and innovative technical solutions in this field. He presented a paper at the 1990
Electro-Optical Modeling User's Group conference.
In
1990, Mr. Ellersick transferred to his present position as Display Optics and
Lighting Systems Engineer in the Boeing Commercial Airplane Group. In this capacity, he is responsible to
establish flight deck lighting optical performance, readability, and display
requirements for 737, 747, 757, 767 and 777 airplanes to ensure quality and
certification. He performs visual human
factor trade studies and conducts theoretical and experimental evaluations of
flight deck lighting and displays. Mr.
Ellersick was the flight deck display optics and lighting system focal for the
recently certified new Boeing 767-400 airplane. In the past, he facilitated certification of new technology
active-matrix and segmented liquid crystal displays for the first time on
Boeing airplanes.
Mr. Ellersick has received ten Boeing recognition,
appreciation, and achievement awards for production and certification support
concerning LCDs and flight deck lighting.
He has written over one hundred Boeing technical reports, coordination
letters, and documents. Steve prepared
the latest version of the Boeing Commercial Airplane document defining Requirements for Flight Deck Displays. He has given technical presentations to
airlines, Boeing suppliers, industry, and has five published papers.