Jim Roddy

Jim is an electro-optical engineer who spent his career designing, building and testing equipment that use lasers as a source and write signals, text or images onto film, paper, or electro photographic media. He holds over three dozen US patents. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Villanova University and has done work on a masters degree in Electrical Engineering at Drexel University and Rochester Institute of Technology.

He’s a lifetime member of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers). Jim brings to Leisure World experience as a member and course leader for 12 years at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute associated with Rochester Institute of Technology. His course topics there included science, engineering, history, medicine and music. Jim is new to Leisure World, having moved here in July 2021 and has since become active with the Center for Lifelong Learning Board.