Preparing displaced adults for the optics/photonics workforce

Darrell M. Hull

doi:10.1117/12.388722

16 June 2000 Preparing displaced adults for the optics/photonics workforce

Darrell M. Hull

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Proceedings Volume 3831, Sixth International Conference on Education and Training in Optics and Photonics; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.388722
Event: Education and Training in Optics and Photonics (ETOP'99), 1999, Cancun, Mexico

Abstract

As the optics/photonics industry continues to grow, the demand for workers is assumed to increase proportionally. Empirical data seem to support this assumption. This increase presents a challenge to optics/photonics education, since they control and assume responsibility for a key factor in the ability of industry to further expand. At the same time, the U.S. government through the Department of Labor and the Workforce Investment Act has requested that communities enact programs for displaced adults to transition to the workplace. A program of study is provided that would assist adults in making this transition from unemployment to the optics/photonics industry, with the necessary general work skills, occupational optics/photonics skills, and ability to progress on the job with academic foundations in math and science.

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Darrell M. Hull "Preparing displaced adults for the optics/photonics workforce", Proc. SPIE 3831, Sixth International Conference on Education and Training in Optics and Photonics, (16 June 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.388722

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Photonics

Computing systems

Holographic interferometry

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Dispersion

Holograms

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