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 Dear
Industrial Affiliate Member,
We hope you are all enjoying the end of summer and
the beginning of fall. For us in Tucson, this is great news as the
average high summer temperatures (96.8) give way to cooler evenings
(mid 80s). OSC is off to a GREAT start with record high graduate
enrollments (250) and a strong group of undergraduates.
INDUSTRIAL AFFILIATES
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Industrial Affiliates Workshop: October 8th and 9th at OSC.
Students are busy preparing their Senior Capstone Project
presentations, posters, and graduate research presentations. If
you plan on attending and have not RSVPd, please e-mail or call
Allison Huff Mac Pherson at
Allison@optics.arizona.edu or 520-626-6737.
***On October 9th we will have an open information session for
all companies to participate. Six-Foot rectangular tables will
be available in the lobby during morning refreshments. We are
extending an invitation to all OSC and College of Engineering
students. Should you want to mail supplies, please contact
Allison Huff Mac Pherson.
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Resumes: As Industrial Affiliates you are welcomed and
encouraged to review our student’s resumes on our OSC website:
http://www.optics.arizona.edu/resumes/default.asp . If you
need your company’s numeric password, please contact Allison
Huff Mac Pherson. The website is updated continuously
throughout the year.
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Internships: We are continuously seeking out internship
opportunities for our students. When opportunities arise in
your company, please forward the information to Allison Huff Mac
Pherson so that the internship may be posted on our Career
Opportunities Bulletin Board and forwarded to our students who
are currently seeking employment/internship positions.
FACULTY/PERSONNEL
The National Science Foundation has awarded a
five-year, $18.5 million grant to establish an engineering
research center based at University of Arizona. The center, or
ERC, will focus on removing one of the last bottlenecks in the
Internet by developing optoelectronic technologies for high-bandwith,
low-cost, widespread access networks.
The UA and nine partner universities will
collaborate as the Center for Integrated Access Networks, or
CIAN. The new center brings together leading researchers and
world-class educators who will work to create “truly
transformative systems that are of critical importance to the
foundation of our national information infrastructure.” said
CIAN director and OSC’s Nasser Peyghambarian.
Optical Sciences Professor Hyatt Gibbs will lead
the photonic material and device research thrust.
OSC Professor Franko
Kueppers will lead the CIAN’s “Grand Challenge Testbed,” the
center’s system integration and network demonstration platform.
Mathematics/OSC Professor Jerry Maloney will
develop modeling and design tools for the integrated
optoelectronics chips.
OSC Professor Robert
Norwood will head CIAN’s industrial collaboration and technology
transfer program.
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Series of Short Courses in Tokyo, Japan: The University of
Arizona faculty has organized their second series of Optical
Engineering Short courses to be held in Tokyo Japan November
19-21, 2008. Course content is taken from our undergraduate and
graduate courses in optics. Two courses will be taught in
Japanese and the remainder in English. All classes will have
Japanese speaking teaching assistants to enable questions and
discussions in Japanese. For more information, please visit
http://www.optics.arizona.edu/tokyoshortcourses/default-eng.htm
or contact Professor Russell Chipman at
russell.chipman@optics.arizona.edu or 520- 626-9435.
STUDENTS/ALUMNI
Board
member, Amber Young, describes the enthusiasm toward our
Industrial Affiliates:
“For
my part, I see the opportunities with our Industrial Affiliates
being bi-directional. We would like to know from them if they
have specific ideas on how they would like to get involved or if
they have specific goals or activities they have an interest in.
And, on the flip side, we hope to be able to approach them with
our ideas to find support in carrying them out.”
WIO
will be very active during the Fall Workshop with a poster
during the poster session and a speaker during Faculty/Student
presentations on October 8th.
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OSA/SPIE
Student Chapter: The University of Arizona Student Optics
Chapter engages in outreach activities and schedules speakers on
important topics in the Optics field. For more information
about upcoming activities, please contact Stefano Young at
syoung@optics.arizona.edu.
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3rd
Annual LBT Camping Trip: OSC Student representatives are
coordinating the 3rd Annual LBT Camping trip to be held October
18, 2008 on top of Mt. Graham. The OSC community and their
families have the unique opportunity to see the world’s largest
steerable telescope on top of the 10,720 foot mountain, whose
8.4 meter primary mirror was fabricated in our own U of A
football field. For more information about this event, please
contact Katia Shtyrkova at
katiasht@email.arizona.edu.
MISCELLANEOUS
Outreach Efforts: Upcoming events include, but are not limited
to:
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Math and Science Funfest: Presented at Tucson Convention
Center each Fall.
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Jr.
Scientist Day: Takes place in the Science Library the first
Saturday of the U of A Homecoming week.
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Opti 489 & 589: Optics Outreach Laboratory: These one-hour
credit classes serve as a means for practicing effective public
speaking. The classes also enable students to develop their
communication skills and present their creative ideas for future
presentations. Upon completion of the class, the students then
have opportunities to put their skills to practice by
accompanying Joseph McCoullough, undergraduate student advisor,
to high schools throughout Arizona and surrounding states to
give demonstrations and presentations to high school students.
**If you have any materials or supplies you would like presented
during OSC Outreach demonstrations or any give-aways to be used
for our Outreach events, please contact Carl Maes at
carl.maes@optics.arizona.edu or 520-626-8837.
For more
information about Monthly Updates, please contact:
Allison
MacPherson, Development Coordinator
520-626-6737
allison@optics.arizona.edu
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