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OP-TEC Newsletter – July 2019
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 – May 2019
OP-TEC is releasing PDF copies of all the materials we have developed, as well as digital/video resources, for downloading by faculty and students in optics and photonics technician education programs. Descriptions of these materials/resources are described in the first three…
Posted in News, Newsletters Tagged with: AACC, Chrys Panayiotou, Emerging Applications of Photonics, employers, Frank Reed, Fundamentals of Photonics Workshop, HI-TEC 2019, HI-TEC Conference, high school, hiring, IHCC, Indian Hills Community College, Indian River State College, International Day of Light, Iowa, IRSC, laboratories, Laser and Optics Technology, Laser and Photonics Technology, Laser and Photonics Technology Program, Laser Material Processing Workshop, laser pointer, LASER-TEC, MentorLinks, Midwest Photonics Education Center, Missouri, MO, mobile spectroscopy, MPEC, National Science Foundation, Near IR LEDs, near-infra-red LED emitters, NIR LEDs, NIR Spectroscopy, NSF, OPCN, OPCN Network, Optics and Photonics College Network, Photonics, professional development, St. Louis, students, Summer Learning Programs, technician, Technology, Trenton Northrup, work
OP-TEC Newsletter – April 2019
In its thirteen years of operation OP-TEC, the National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education National Center for Optics and Photonics Education, has developed and updated over 2,500 pages of educational materials: * 16 Student texts and Faculty Teaching Aids for…
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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