Program Planning

OP-TEC Program Planning Guides and Monographs

For Infusing Photonics Education into Photonics Enabled Technologies

Program Planning Guides are manuals for community/technical college planners (technical program chairs, deans and faculty) to enable them to determine whether and how to include photonics education in existing programs.  Each Guide addresses the following topics:

  • Skill Standards for Photonics Technicians
  • Strategies for Implementation
  • Course Designs
  • Available Student and Instructor Materials
  • Lab and Equipment Overview
  • Criteria for Selecting/Training
  • Recruitment Strategies

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Program Planning Guides

Infusing Photonics Education into Manufacturing Technology AAS Programs

Infusing Biomedical Applications of Photonics into Electronics Engineering Technology Programs

Infusing Homeland Security Photonics Education into Electronics Engineering Technology

Infusing Photonics Education into Optoelectronics AAS Programs (Semiconductors, MEMS and Nanotechnology)

Infusing Photonics Education into Telecommunication Technology AAS Programs

OP-TEC Program Planning Guide for High Schools

High School Photonics Lab Manual

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.

NEW!  Hands-on Green Energy Activities

Restoring a Declining Photonics Program at Tri-County Technical College

Transforming Electronics Engineering Technology by Infusing Photonics

Revitalizing Electronics Engineering Technology Programs Through a Core Curriculum Structure and Emerging Technologies

TSTC Waco’s Photonics Summer Institutes for High School Science and Technology Teachers

Outreach Activities to Enlist High School Students for Electro-Optics Technician Programs at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Northpointe Two-Year Campus

Providing Photonics Education for Technicians

A General Curriculum Framework for Infusing “Enabling” Technologies into Two-Year Postsecondary Technical Programs

Complimentary Bound Copies:
Complimentary bound copies of the Program Planning Guides and Program Monographs are available on an as-needed basis. To request a presentation copy, please click here to complete a request form.
You can also email your request directly to op-tec@op-tec.org or call 254-751-9000.  Please include the name(s) of the requested Program Planning Guide or Program Monograph in your request.