We are midway through the fall 2022 semester. It is time for students graduating in December to prepare their resumes and for industry seeking laser-photonics technicians to plan their recruiting trips to our Optics and Photonics College Network (OPCN) members.
Our OPCN partner colleges would be delighted to host your recruiters or employment representatives on their campuses. This is the time to contact the program managers and make arrangements for a visit and recruiting event at the college of your choice, before the end of the fall 2022 semester. For a complete list of the contact persons and college information, please visit this webpage: https://laser-tec.org/opcn/
This is a fully packed issue with articles about:
- The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics award for Experiments with Entangled Photons, and the photonics enabled quantum industry.
- The SPIE Summit in Washington D.C. and the critical role of laser-photonics in the U.S. advanced industry.
- The new Open Educational Resources (OER) in precision optics produced by Dr. Brian Monacelli, a world-renowned expert in optics from JPL and Pasadena City College.
- The biennial international education conference in optics and photonics (ETOP) that will be in Florida in 2023 and is waiting for your submissions.
- The Optics and Photonics Industry report, with analysis and charts, demonstrating our industry’s 96-billion-dollar impact on global GDP.
- The multiple LASER-TEC resources of textbooks, lab-books, photonics kits, outreach materials, online-courses, lecture and lab videos, and more, available on our website.
The featured college of this month is Sussex County Community College, Newton, N.J. We welcome and congratulate Grant Emmel, from Madison Area Technical College, who is working with LASER-TEC to start a laser-photonics program at Madison.
Finally, I would like to end this issue with my last message to all readers, friends, and acquaintances, as I am retiring on October 31st, 2022. It has been a tremendous professional journey for me as an electrical engineer, photonics educator, and NSF Center P.I. I would like to extend my many thanks and gratitude to all my collaborators throughout the years. LASER-TEC is ever-strong and will continue its exemplary work in the competent hands of Natalia Chekhovskaya, who will be the new P.I.
Farewell my friends; be healthy, and do good. If you want to keep in touch, my new email is chrys.panayiotou.sr@gmail.com.
Wishing you all the best,
Chrys Panayiotou
Fort Pierce, FL
