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UK Investments Boost Semiconductor, Silicon Photonics Industry
LONDON, Feb. 8, 2024 — Two research hubs in Southampton and Bristol, England have received £11 million ($13.9) each to help bring new chip technologies to market. The newly established Innovation and Knowledge Centres (IKC) will support research and initiatives, provide access to state-of-the-art prototyping technology, and will work closely with early-stage companies. At the University of Southampton, the Cornerstone Information and Knowledge Centre will build on the university’s expertise in silicon photonics and...
Optical Computing Leader Lightmatter Adds $155M in Funding
BOSTON, Dec. 20, 2023 — Photonic chip developer Lightmatter raised $155 million in a series C-2 funding round led by Google Ventures and Viking Global Investors. The company intends to use the financing to expand its workforce and office footprint, as well as to increase...
DOE Unites Fusion Research Trailblazers with $42M Injection
WASHINGTON, D.C., Dec. 11, 2023 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has unveiled a $42 million initiative to establish three research hubs — at the University of Rochester (UR), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), and Colorado State University (CSU) — to...
Critical Tech, Policy Priorities at the Fore of Second SPIE Summit
WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 2, 2023 — Policymakers and appointed officials outlined many of the U.S. government’s foremost priorities in science and technology, joining with leaders from the photonics sector in Washington, D.C., last week for the second SPIE Photonics Industry...
Policy, Technology Innovation Take Focus at Second SPIE Photonics Industry Summit
WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 22, 2023 — SPIE will bring together photonics industry stakeholders and U.S. government representatives and elected officials at its second Industry Summit, taking place Sept. 27 in Washington, D.C. The single-day event features discussions, presentations, and...
Optical Workforce Training Comes into Focus
Aug 1, 2023 — Ten years ago, Tony Amarel’s recruitment firm in Rochester, New York, rarely heard from clients who were willing to pay a fee to fill optical technician positions. But by 2021, the six-county Rochester metropolitan area saw the number of jobs...
Investment Propels ColdQuanta Into Asia-Pacific Quantum Landscape
MELBOURNE, Australia, Oct. 31, 2022 — A 29 million AUD ($18.5 million) investment into Colorado-based quantum technology company ColdQuanta from the government of the State of Victoria, Australia, via its Breakthrough Victoria Fund, will help to establish an Asia-Pacific quantum...
NSF Partners with White House on Quantum Workforce
WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 3, 2022 — As part of a broader effort to expand the quantum workforce, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued a $2.2 million grant to the Montana-Arkansas (MonArk) NSF Quantum Foundry, led by Montana State University and the University of Arkansas,...
SPIE Funding Backs UK Optics and Photonics Education Initiatives
BELLINGHAM, Wash., Oct. 4, 2021 — SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, will provide support through its Endowment Matching Program to two initiatives at universities in the U.K. The program has provided $500,000 to the University of Glasgow to support a...
AmeriCOM Secures First College Partner for Precision Optics Consortium
NEWTON, N.J., Aug. 26, 2021 — Sussex County Community College (SCCC) in New Jersey is the first college to partner with the American Center for Optics Manufacturing (AmeriCOM), under AmeriCOM’s Department of Defense-funded, five-year, $34 million Defense Precision Optics...
Advanced Manufacturing Education Offered Online
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 30, 2021 — The Department of Defense (DOD) and MIT launched an online Open edX platform for advanced manufacturing and technologies education. The website-hosted platform currently features two on-demand photonics courses — one on PIC sensors and one on...
Wales Establishes Photonics Network and Leadership Council
CARDIFF, Wales, June 25, 2021 — Wales launched a dedicated photonics network and leadership council, Photonics Connected, as part of the Wales Tech Week event, which took place June 21-25. The launch of Photonics Connected brings together senior figures in the Welsh photonics...
Department of Defense Selects AmeriCOM as Partner in Optics Consortium
ROCHESTER, N.Y., June 23, 2021 — The American Center for Optics Manufacturing (AmeriCOM) has been selected for a five-year, $34 million grant from the Department of Defense’s (DOD) Office of Industrial Policy program to launch a nationwide public-private Defense Precision...
US Congressional Optics and Photonics Caucus Launches
WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 25, 2021 — The U.S. Congressional Optics and Photonics Caucus held its public launch event Feb. 24, in a virtual format. The bipartisan, bicameral caucus is co-chaired by Joe Morelle of N.Y. and Brian Mast of Fla. in the House of Representatives, and Krysten...
Third Photonics Online Meetup to Feature Job Fair, Career Panel
Jan 7, 2021 — The third Photonics Online Meetup (POM) launches next week with a virtual poster session on Twitter Jan. 11, and then features two days of presentations Jan. 13 and 14. Guided by the themes of metasurfaces, biosensors, and frequency combs —...
SunDensity’s Photonic Smart Coating Technology Takes Top Prize at Luminate NY’s Finals Competition
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Sept. 15, 2020 — SunDensity, a developer of photonic smart coatings (PSC) technology, has earned $1 million in funding as the winner of the third cohort of the Luminate NY Program’s Innovation Finals Competition. All Luminate third-cohort winners, highlighted...
Weeklong Bootcamp Provides Hands-On Experience in Integrated Photonics
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 27, 2020 — A January weeklong integrated photonics bootcamp, offered by MIT as part of its work with the manufacturing institute AIM Photonics, provided students with the opportunity to solve problems using lab equipment to test passive photonic chips,...
Hexagon and URI Form Collaborative Partnership for Advanced Manufacturing
KINGSTON, R.I., Nov. 14, 2019 — Sensor and software developer Hexagon has announced a collaboration with the University of Rhode Island (URI) to provide manufacturing technologies that will enable a research environment for undergraduate and graduate programs focused on advanced...
Monroe Community College Awarded $4.4M by Naval Research Office
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Oct. 3, 2019 — Monroe Community College (MCC) has been awarded a $4.4 million grant by the Office of Naval Research for its Defense Engineering Education Program in Optics (DEEP OPS). The program will increase the national optics workforce through innovative...
Alt Ed for Industry 4.0
Mar 4, 2019 — My inaugural column in Photonics Spectra (January 2019) provided an overview of the rapid changes to work and workplace in manufacturing. The photonics industry is experiencing the same skills gap that 3D printing, advanced robotics, artificial...
The New-Collar Workforce in Industry 4.0
Nov 28, 2018 — In the U.S., as the concept of the smart factory becomes a reality, blue-collar jobs have been transitioning to digital, “new-collar” jobs and changing manufacturing. A key plank in President Donald Trump’s campaign platform called...
More Training Will Motivate Future Workforce
Jun 28, 2018 — The photonics and optics industries are growing exponentially with continually advancing research and technologies. Such development further motivates advancement, but one glaring challenge remains: The photonics and optics workforces are struggling...
Building the Next-Generation Optics Workforce
Jun 28, 2018 — The optics and photonics industries are growing faster than the overall economy, by more than 3 percent per year. There are more jobs available in the industry than there are skilled optics and photonics technicians to fill them. In the Rochester,...
3 Questions Interview
Jun 27, 2018 — Nicholas Massa, Ph.D., is chairman of the Optics and Photonics Technology Department at Springfield Technical Community College (STCC) in Massachusetts. He has been an educator in the engineering, optics, and photonics fields for more than 30 years,...
Manufacturing Is Changing Dramatically. Who’s Ready to Work?
PITTSFIELD, Mass., Jan. 25, 2018 — U.S. manufacturing companies are expected to face a shortage of two million skilled workers by the year 2020. As a result, manufacturers and educators are looking for real, actionable ideas to train workers, reduce the shortfall and realize the...
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