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OP-TEC Photonics Curriculum Materials
OP-TEC has developed program planning and text/laboratory materials to support education and training for future and current photonics technicians. Please click on the links below to view additional information about our program planning and classroom materials.
Laser, Optics & Photonics SeriesCourse 1: Fundamentals of Light and Lasers |
Program Monographs
NEW! Career
Pathways for STEM Technicians
This document presents a "win-win" solution to two problems that
are facing our nation:
- We don't have enough technicians to support continued technological innovation or to staff the organizations that could improve our country's economic position in the world.
- We don't have adequate educational opportunities for capable, struggling high school students who need, and deserve, an opportunity to enter a rewarding career.
Click here to view all of our Program Monographs
National Skill Standards
The National Photonics Skill Standards for Technicians and The National Precision Optics Skill Standards for Technicians represents the consensus of a broad cross-section of U.S. employers regarding the technical and workplace skills required of photonics technicians and precision optics technicians. They are designed to give educators and employer advisory committees a solid foundation for generating courses and programs that will enable two-year colleges (and their feeder high schools) to produce globally competitive workers. Click on the links below to learn more about the skill standards and to view, save and/or print a complimentary copy. Complimentary bound copies are also available upon request.
The National Photonics Skill Standards for Technicians – 3rd Edition
The National Precision Optics Skill Standards for Technicians
Program Planning Guides and Monographs
Program Planning Guides are manuals for community and technical college planners (technical program chairs, deans and faculty) to enable them to determine whether and how to infuse photonics education into existing programs. The guides cover key photonics enabled technologies. Click on any of the links below to learn more about the guides and to view, save and/or print complimentary copies. Complimentary bound copies are also available upon request.
Electronics Engineering Technology
High School Photonics Education
OP-TEC Photonics Curriculum Materials Catalog
Click here to download a PDF file of the current OP-TEC Photonics Curriculum Materials catalog containing information on all program planning and classroom materials.
Evaluation Copies
OP-TEC Program Planning Guides and The National Photonics Skill Standards for Technicians are available for free download from this site. Evaluation copies of OP-TEC curriculum materials are avaliable to faculty by request. If you would like to request evaluation copies of OP-TEC curriculum materials, please email op-tec@op-tec.org.
Ordering OP-TEC Publications
To order OP-TEC curriculum materials and publications for the classroom, please contact Cord Communications at 800-231-3015 (ext 328), email skroll@cordcommunications.com or visit their website at www.cordcommunications.com.
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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DUE-1144377. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. |
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