Farewell from OP-TEC In less than two weeks, OP-TEC will complete our operations, and I will finally retire. I began my career in lasers 57 years ago, when my engineering manager at Westinghouse Defense Center reassigned me to build new…
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OP-TEC Newsletter – August 2019
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OP-TEC Newsletter – July 2019
Are you preparing your students for the knowledge and skills that some employers want, or for what most employers need? How do you discern the difference? Does it really matter? National Skill Standards can help. College faculty that are preparing…
Posted in News, Newsletters Tagged with: AACC, Advisory Committee, Agri-Industrial Plastics Company, Bolts, CCCC, Chrys Panayiotou, Emerging Applications of Photonics, employers, Fizzix Manufacturing, Frank Reed, Frog Legs, Fundamentals of Semiconductor Laser Diodes, General Electric, HI-TEC 2019, HI-TEC Conference, high school, hiring, IHCC, Indian Hills Community College, Indian River State College, Iowa, IRSC, Jason Troyano, John Deere, Katrina DeVore, laboratories, Laser and Fiber Optics Technology Series, Laser and Optics Technology, Laser and Photonics Technology, laser pointer, LASER-TEC, LWTech, medical lasers, Midwest Photonics Education Center, Missouri, MO, MPEC, National Science Foundation, NSF, Nuts, nutsandboltsfoundation.org, OPCN, OPCN Network, Optics and Photonics College Network, Photonics, professional development, Skill Standards, St. Louis, students, technician, Technology, Thingamajigs, Women Exploring STEM Day, work
OP-TEC Newsletter – June 2019
Articles in this month’s issue feature laser applications emerging in medicine, summer recruitment events, and photonics technician program development. Faculty professional development opportunities include summer workshops at MPEC and the OPCN meetings at the July HI-TEC conference in St Louis.…
Posted in News, Newsletters Tagged with: AACC, CCCC, Central Carolina Community College, Chris Baggett, Chrys Panayiotou, Emerging Applications of Photonics, employers, Frank Reed, Fundamentals of Photonics Workshop, Gary Beasley, HI-TEC 2019, HI-TEC Conference, high school, hiring, IHCC, Indian Hills Community College, Indian River State College, Iowa, IRSC, Irvine Valley College, Kentek, laboratories, Lake Washington Institute of Technology, Laser and Optics Technology, Laser and Photonics Technology, Laser Material Processing Workshop, laser pointer, LASER-TEC, LWTech, medical lasers, Mentor-Connect, Midwest Photonics Education Center, Missouri, MO, mobile spectroscopy, MPEC, National Science Foundation, Northrop Grumman, NSF, OPCN, OPCN Network, Optics and Photonics College Network, PHOTON1, Photonics, Prismatic Magic, professional development, Raman spectroscopy, SPIE, St. Louis, students, Summer Learning Programs, technician, Technology, Wasatch Photonics, work
OP-TEC Newsletter – February 2019
New breakthroughs and innovations in lasers and optics continue to stimulate the rapid expansion of photonics applications. The first graphic in this issue represents the advantages of welding metals with blue lasers. The first article explains how optical sensors are…
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OP-TEC Newsletter – January 2019
The lead article in this issue describes the enormous growth in the use of Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers and VCSEL diode arrays. A brief introduction to VCSELs is included in module 6 of OP-TEC’s Course 2, Laser Systems and Applications. More…
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OP-TEC Newsletter – September 2018
The first two articles in this month’s newsletter (Using LADAR to See Through Fire and Lensless See-Through Cameras) are examples of the rapidly emerging applications of photonics. As this technology continues to expand, the demand for competent photonics technicians is…
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Colorado Photonics Industry Association
Garry Gorsuch, Director
5733 Central Ave.
Boulder, Colorado 80301
Phone: 303-834-1022
E-mail: exec@coloradophotonics.org
Website: www.coloradophotonics.org