The lead picture in this month’s issue displays the winner of the OPN 2018 After Image photo contest. I encourage you to click the link to the website and view all ten of the finalist images. Copies of the new…
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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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OP-TEC Newsletter – July 2018
July 2018 Optics and Photonics Education News: Optics & Photonics Enable “Rise of the Robots”A New Cloak of InvisibilityConverging Networks in Enterprise BuildingsMPEC Hosts Nuts, Bolts & Thingamajigs Summer Manufacturing CampIntegrated Photonics Figures and Images for InstructorsNew WomenTech Educators Video BlogHI-TEC Conference…
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OP-TEC Newsletter – April 2018
The briefings in this newsletter on Optical Tweezers and Data Center Photonics are examples of the broad impact of rapidly emerging optics and photonics applications. The articles from MPEC and LASER-TEC exemplify some of the remarkable events that are occurring…
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OP-TEC Newsletter – December 2017
This issue of OPEN contains several excellent opportunities for professional development: MPEC summer workshops on “Laser Materials Processing” and “Fundamentals of Photonics” NSF Funded Mentoring Opportunities Community College Innovation Challenge CCIC OP-TEC Winter and Spring Webinars on Available Faculty Resources…
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OP-TEC to release 3rd Edition of Fundamentals of Light and Lasers. See our November newsletter.
Optics and Photonics Education News - November 2018
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DeafTEC Shares Top Ten Things Student Veterans Would like Faculty to Know Subscribe Posted by Madeline Patton at 11:00am. As part of its effort to bring more people who are deaf and hard of hearing in...Instructors, check out the Fundamentals of Light and Lasers teaching resources chart in our October newsletter!
Optics and Photonics Education News - October 2018
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Optics and Photonics Education News - September 2018
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