Workshop on Optics and Photonics Education
Sponsored by Camden County College, Blackwood, N.J.
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Workshop Information:
Date: November 13-14, 2008
Location: Camden County College, Blackwood, N.J. |
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Sponsor: Camden County College (CCC)
Workshop sessions will be conducted at Camden County College.
All registrants will receive a packet with location information and hotel and travel recommendations
Registration Fee: None.
The workshop is free of charge. Participants will be responsible for any travel, lodging or meals. Lunch will be provided both days of the workshop.
Click here to download a workshop flier!
The workshop flier (PDF file) includes all the workshop details and registration instructions.
Background:
Optics and photonics applications are rapidly transforming the way we work and live. Photonics, and its applications, involve the cutting-edge use of lasers, optics, fiber-optics and electro-optical devices. Photonics has many applications in manufacturing, medicine, communications, solid-state lighting, and other high-tech fields. Thus, it represents a broad, commercially viable area in which American employers require a steady supply of well-qualified technicians.
The demand for photonics technicians in the United States is great and that demand is growing faster than the pool of qualified candidates. Since most of the skills needed for photonics workers at the technician level are obtainable through AAS degree programs, community and technical colleges provide the optimum environment for significantly increasing the number of qualified personnel available to U.S. employers in technical fields. Two-year colleges must also partner with high schools to design photonics career pathways to lead students through well planned secondary course sequences and into articulated two-year postsecondary programs. The creation of this secondary-to postsecondary “pipeline” of students is critical to the success of producing enough qualified technicians to meet industry needs.
In an effort to support and promote the inclusion of optics and photonics applications in secondary and postsecondary programs, OP-TEC, the National Center for Optics and Photonics Education, will be offering a free two-day Workshop on Optics and Photonics Education at Camden County College (CCC) in Blackwood, N.J.
OP-TEC is a consortium of two-year colleges, high schools, universities, national laboratories, industry partners and professional societies funded by the National Science Foundation’s Advanced Technology Education (ATE) program. OP-TEC serves secondary STEM programs and postsecondary programs devoted to lasers, optics and photonics technology or technologies enabled by optics and photonics. Camden County College founded its Laser-Electro Optics Technology program in 1976 and at that time was the fourth program of its kind in the nation. Today, Camden County College’s Photonics Technology programs, which serve approximately 80 students each year, are considered some of the finest in the nation.
Purpose of the Workshop:
To inform participants about career opportunities and the growing need for optics and photonics technicians and the secondary and postsecondary programs options to prepare them.
To explain the opportunities for participants to create new secondary-to-postsecondary programs in photonics and/or to infuse optics and photonics instruction into existing technical programs and courses in math, science and technologies enabled by photonics.
To inform participants of the OP-TEC curriculum materials and services available for planning and implementing photonics education at their institutions.
Who Should Attend?
Community & Technical Colleges – learn how to create new AAS programs in photonics or to infuse photonics into existing technical programs!
Secondary Science & Math Coordinators – learn how to enhance existing science and math courses!
CTE & Tech Prep Directors – learn about adding dual-credit courses!
Counselors – learn about career opportunities for your students!
Attendees will receive…..
The National Photonics Skill Standards for
Technicians, Third Edition (CORD, 2008)
Includes a detailed catalog of the knowledge and skills required by employers in photonics-enabled fields (e.g., communication, lighting and illumination, imaging and remote sensing, medicine, manufacturing, and optoelectronics), along with course outlines and supporting information.
Mathematics for Photonics Technicians
(CORD, 2003)
Supplementary math resource designed to help postsecondary students acquire the skills in algebra, geometry, and trigonometry necessary for success in associate degree programs in optics and related technologies.
Course 1: Fundamentals of Light and Lasers
(CORD, 2003)
Comprehensive study of photonics including: nature and properties of light, optical handling and
positioning, laser safety, basic geometrical optics, basic physical optics and principles of lasers.
Course 2: Elements of Photonics
(CORD, 2005)
Includes specific photonics systems and applies the principles presented in Course I. The last three modules in Course 2 can be replaced with those in the Photonics Enabled Technology (PET) series to customize this course.
PET Series - Modules in Photonics Enabled
Technologies
Fourteen stand-alone modules to prepare students for careers in specific photonics enabled technologies. Modules cover the diverse fields of manufacturing, biomedicine, environmental monitoring, optoelectronics and forensic science and homeland security.
Program Planning Guides
Program Planning Guides are manuals for community/technical college faculty and administrators to enable them to determine whether and how to include photonics education in existing programs. Guides are available for infusing photonics education into manufacturing technology, biomedical application, homeland security, optoelectronics, telecommunications and electronics engineering technology.
Many other informational items ...
Registration Instructions:
ONLINE: Click here to complete your registration online!
PHONE: Call Donna Flanery at 254-741-8338 ext 394.
FAX: Click here to download the registration form and fax the completed form to 254-399-6581.
MAIL: Click here to download the registration form and mail the completed form to OP-TEC, P.O. Box 21689, Waco, TX, 76702.
Registrant Packets:
All registrants will receive a packet with location information and hotel and travel recommendations. Packets will be e-mailed to registrants by OP-TEC staff after completing the registration process. Registrants will also be placed on a mailing list to receive additional workshop information and updates.
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