- Senior Member, Student Chapter Advisor, and Instructor of the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE). http://www.spie.org
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Prof. Poutous is the SPIE UNC Charlotte Student Chapter Advisor.
Prof. Poutous is an Instructor of the continuing education credit course: “Basic Optics for Engineers”, offered yearly at the Photonics West Meeting of SPIE in San Francisco, CA.