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MCC Technical Education Hosts National Optics and Photonics Workshop


The Technical Education Division is hosting a two-day workshop, targeted for educators, 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 conducting the free two-day Workshop on Optics and Photonics Education, at MCC on February 4 and 5, 2010, in the Warshof Conference Center, R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center (Monroe A). The Workshop is being co-sponsored by New York Photonics and the Rochester Regional Photonics Cluster (RRPC).  Workshop presenters include Dr. Janet Glocker, Mr. Thomas Battley, Dr. John Souders, Dr. Dianna Phillips, Professor Marcelo Guimaraes, and Ms. Julie Foreman. 

The Workshop will:
* Inform participants about career opportunities and the growing need for optics and photonics technicians and the secondary and postsecondary programs options to prepare them.

* 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.

* Inform participants of the OP-TEC curriculum materials and services available for planning and implementing photonics education at their institutions.

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.

The creation of a secondary to postsecondary pipeline of students is critical to the success of providing qualified technicians to meet the industry demand.

Additional information is available at: https://www.op-tec.org/workshop.php

Dr. Dianna G. Phillips
Technical Education
02/04/2010