Dr. Dean L. Mensa, pioneer in the field of Radar Cross Section (RCS) measurements and high-resolution RCS imaging passed away on 8 July 2023 following a year-long illness. In 1951 at age 12, Dean immigrated with his mother from Pinerolo, Italy to Los Angeles, California. Upon graduation from Belmont High School in 1957, the United States Navy recruited Dean into Civil Service and supported his college education and development as an Engineer/Scientist at the Navy’s Pacific Missile Test Center (PMTC), Point Mugu, California. Through this support, Dean completed his Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering at the University of California Los Angeles in 1961. Dean married his high school sweetheart Judy in 1960 (he had to wait for her to graduate from high school) and they began their young family having three children: Denise, Debbie, and Dino.

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