Quick Links: 
Teaching Links:
Summer I 2023 ABRD-5141
Dialogues of Civilization
Biomedical Imaging in Chile
Summer II 2023: EECE4790 Capstone I
Selected Dates and Group Meetings.
Fall 2023: EECE4792 Capstone II
Selected Dates and Group Meetings
EECE2150 Circuits and Signals
M,Th 1:00-3:20, W 2:15-3:20
Spring 2024: EECE4646 Optics for Engineers
Tu, Th 1:35-3:15
EECE5654 Design and Prototyping of Optical Systems
for Engineering Applications
Tu,Th 9:30-11:30
Charles A. (Chuck) DiMarzio 
Associate Professor 
Electrical and Computer Engineering 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering 
Bioengineering 
Northeastern University
  • Study in Chile with me. Dialogues of Civilization, SU1.
  • Learn about our group. The Optical Science Laboratory.
  • Check out our microscope. The W.M.Keck 3-D Fusion Microscope.
  • Join our group. Research Opportunities for Graduate Students.
  • e-mail to dimarzio @ ece.neu.edu
  • Learn about my consulting availability.
  • Ski with me in 2023/4.

  • My lab, the  Optical Science Laboratory (OSL) is located in room 352 of the Egan Engineering and Science Research Center. You can find directions at at http://www.ece.neu.edu/groups/osl/directions.html.

    My office is in 302 Stearns.


    http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781439807255
    My textbook: Optics for Engineers


    My book, Optics for Engineers, is now available. Click on the book or the link above for more information from my publisher, CRC Press.

    http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781439807255

     Previous Course Notes:
    Summer1 2017,18,19
    ABRD5141, EECE4649, CLTR4944 Biomedical Imaging (Dialogues of Civilization in Chile)
    Fall 2020,21
    EECE2210 Electrical Engineering
    Fall 2017,18
    EECE2150 Circuits and Signals
    Summer1 2015
    EECE3154 Hyperspectral Imaging (Dialogues of Civilization in Chile)
    Summer2 2014
    EECE4648 Biomedical Optics (Dialogues of Civilization in Taiwan)
    Spring 2006
    ECEG398 Quantum Optics with Prof. Devaney
    Fall 2000, Spring 2001, Fall 2007,08,09,10: Spring 2013, Fall and Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring and Fall 2018:
    EECE2412 (Formerly ECEU402) ECEU402 (Formerly ECE1341) Introduction to Electronics
    Fall 2001, Fall 2003, Fall 2007,09,12,17, Spring 2018,22: EECE7105 (Formerly ECEG105, ECE-3582, Undergraduate version EECE4646:) Optics for Engineers (grad)
    Spring 2005, 6, Fall 2008 Spring 2014,17,20: EECE4646 (Formerly ECEU646) Optics for Engineers (advanced undergrad elective)
    Summer II 2005: 
    ECEU401 Formerly ECE-1240
    Intro to ECE Laboratory
    Fall 2002,3
    GEU110 Engineering Design (Freshman Course)
    Winter 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2006. Spring 2011.
    EECE4692 or EECE5698 (Formerly ECEU692)
    Introduction to Subsurface Sensing  and Imaging 
    Spring 2004:
    ECEG287

    Optical Detection (With Prof. Stephen McKnight)
    SU II and SP, Since 2005:
    SU2 and FA Since 2015.
    EECE4790/2

    Capstone Design
    Fall 2012:
    FSEM1101

    Freshman Seminar



    Briefly...

    Our group, the Optical Science Laboratory (OSL) is particularly interested in those optical imaging techniques which involve coherent detection, multi-modal imaging, multi-wave imaging (where light is used in combination with another type of wave such as ultrasound). Our applications include biological and medical imaging, including embryos, skin, collagen, and lung.



    BLM: Massachusetts Ave from Linnean to Wendell, Cambridge.

    Here is my weekly schedule for the present term: 

    My normal hours on campus are from 9AM through 6PM, but this varies considerably, and I am usually fully scheduled every day, so the chance of catching me with a free moment is very small. For that reason, I prefer to arrange meeting times in advance. Send an email first, and schedule a meeting time.

    Some Personal Information

    I live in Cambridge, with my wife, Sheila. We have two kids and three grandchildren.

    We enjoy travel almost anywhere, attending plays, concerts and cooking.

    For outdoor activities, I enjoy running (see Greater Boston Track Club for running information in Boston), bicycling, both for getting around the city (in the good weather at least), and for pleasure (see my page on car-free biking around Boston,  http:// http://www.ece.neu.edu/faculty/dimarzio/bike/ ), and skiing almost every winter weekend at Killington, VT, and occasionally elsewhere.

    Some pictures of leisure activities including skiing on a smoking volcano, a Century bike ride and more.

    Nevados de Chillan 2019 Ski House at Killington 2020 Century Ride to Provincetown 2018 Stratton Hike 2018

    "This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as I live it is my privilege - my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I love. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me; it is a sort of splendid torch which I’ve got a hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations."

    --George Bernard Shaw


    To Contact Me

    You can reach me in any of the following ways.  Electronic mail is usually the easiest and fastest.
  • e-mail: dimarzio @ ece.neu.edu
  • Phone: +1 617-373-2034
  • Mail:
  • Charles A. DiMarzio
  • 440 Dana Research Center
  • Northeastern University
  • 360 Huntington Avenue
  • Boston, MA 02115
  • Lab Location:
  • 352 Egan Building (see http://www.ece.neu.edu/groups/osl/directions.html)
  • Office Location:
  • 302 Stearns Building (see http://www.ece.neu.edu/groups/osl/directions.html)

  • ABOUT THE BACKGROUND: My favorite winter passtime is skiing. I put this background together from a detail of a photograph taken at Park City, in 2003. There are four copies in different orientations so that the tracks (and more importantly, the brightness levels) line up as the pattern repeats.


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