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Let Them Eat Pie: Digging into Edible Optics
PITTSFIELD, Mass., Nov. 28, 2019 — The transparent pumpkin pie craze began in 2017 when chefs Simon Davies and Mike Bagale of cutting-edge three-Michelin-star Chicago restaurant Alinea created one using “molecular gastronomy,” a modern discipline which challenges the...
Innovative Optics Instruction: Prominent Theme of ETOP 2017
Jun 30, 2017 — A Google search for “jobs that don’t exist yet” brings up millions of hits. So how do teachers prepare today’s students to learn what is important now and also how to continue to learn and be productive in the future?...
Springfield Tech's Laser Program Set to Expand
Jun 7, 2016 — One of the oldest laser electro-optic technology associate degree programs in the U.S. will soon be seeing changes as the result of a $500,000 grant. Springfield Technical Community College (STCC) in Springfield, MA, will create an advanced laser...
Educational Programs Drive the Future
Jan 12, 2016 — According to the National Science Foundation (NSF), the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) workforce is critical to innovation and competitiveness. STEM literacy is vital also to ordinary citizens making sense of a complex world. Several...
ALOP: Bringing Optics and Photonics to the Developing World
May 28, 2015 — Teaching introductory O&P courses is very challenging. Teachers must understand math and physics well enough to provide students the requisite understanding of both. They also have to choose the best teaching techniques from options including...
3 Questions Interview
Jul 1, 2014 — Optics education advocate Judy Donnelly might have retired recently, but she won’t let that slow down her efforts to advance science and learning. Donnelly won the 2012 Esther Hoffman Beller Medal from OSA, which recognizes outstanding...
Hands-on program ‘makes waves’ with kids
Jul 1, 2014 — There’s no need to make science exciting for kids – it’s already exciting. Educators just need to show them. That was the goal of the yearlong Making Waves: Optics and Acoustics program, which brought together students from three...
Light Refreshments Will Be Served
Jul 1, 2014 — In less than six months, people everywhere will anxiously await the ball drop or other symbolic event signaling the start of 2015. It seems fitting that the International Year of Light will be ushered in by fireworks and laser light shows from Paris...
Problem-Based Learning Boosts Laser Safety Training
Apr 7, 2014 — Adding real experience to classroom education prepares laser users and safety officers for real-life situations. Laser safety training for users of Class 3B and Class 4 laser users has been required since 1973, when the first American National...
Lasers and Fake Corneas Connect Teens, STEM and Photonics
Mar 7, 2014 — Learning middle school science from a textbook can be boring; at least it was for me! But it would have been less so if I could have constructed solar ovens, performed “simulated laser surgery” or seen photonic technologies at work in...
Exciting Students with the Galileoscope
Nov 1, 2013 — Thanks to its ability to increase interest in STEM subjects while promoting deeper understanding of the material, active learning was front and center in many of the sessions at ETOP 2013, the 12th International Conference on Education and Training...
Valuable Training Through Industry-Based Projects
Oct 1, 2013 — Most people agree that students can’t really learn practical workplace skills from a textbook any more than you can learn to ride a bicycle by watching the Tour de France on television. Learning professional skills and behavior requires...
PHOTON Projects Connect Industry, Academia and Government
Sep 1, 2013 — While some companies cite a lack of skilled high-tech workers, others are collaborating with educational institutions to address the need for more graduates in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields. The projects of the New England...
ABET-ing on Accreditation
Jun 1, 2013 — The new ABET accreditation for optics/photonics engineering is good news for universities offering such programs as well as for the students who will attend those universities and the companies that will hire them. But by a trickle-down effect,...
An ‘Epic’ Plan: Student Outreach Program Takes the Long View
Apr 1, 2013 — As a student, I learned a lot of science facts that seemed to have no connection to what I might do in the future. The EPIC Adopt a Classroom project is notable for industry support of education, a growing necessity as education budgets shrink. But...
Problem-Based Learning in Photonics Education
Mar 1, 2013 — “Your graduates know plenty of technical facts, but they don’t know how to use them to solve problems they face on the job.” “Can’t you do something to teach these kids to write and speak effectively?” “Why...
ETOP - Meeting the Future of Global Optics Education
Feb 1, 2013 — Every couple of years, scientists, technicians and educators in optics and photonics come together to discuss and demonstrate the latest approaches to teaching in these fields at ETOP, the International Conference on Education and Training in Optics...
Photonics Industry Undaunted by Uncertainty
Jan 1, 2013 — Despite lingering economic concerns, the photonics community is looking ahead to a brighter future – even if it means more work in the short term. Ask members of the photonics industry to describe the current state of the market, and the word...
A View from the Inside
Dec 1, 2012 — In every industry, in good economies and in bad, the need exists for skilled entry-level workers. But how do those workers of the future gain needed skills? Photonics Spectra is pleased to launch a column featuring efforts in the US and around the...
Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow
Dec 1, 2012 — The nice thing about tomorrow is that it’s, well, always a day away, and it always brings a fresh set of opportunities to tackle and obstacles to overcome. A perpetual challenge for this and many industries is finding trained and qualified...
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