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Watt's Up College of Optical Sciences News for June 12, 2008
People | Watt's Happening | JDSU Co-Op | Optics Employment | Subscribe
Watt's Up Summer Schedule
Because summer is usually a slow news time, Watt's Up will be published approximately every other week during June and July. The next issue is scheduled for June 26.
Watt's Up will resume it's weekly publication schedule before the start of the new academic year in August.
Scholarship Opportunity
From Jim Schwiegerling. I have an opportunity to support an undergraduate student through a National Science Foundation Scholarship. The area of study is identification through biometric identifiers. The details and requirements of the program are outlined below. If interested and eligible, please contact Jim Schwiegerling at jschwieg@u.arizona.edu by June 23.
Background: The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) National Consortium for MASINT Research (NCMR) Scholars Program offers undergraduates the opportunity to receive as much as $10,000 per year for 2 years for tuition, textbooks, and room and board. The NCMR underwrites the training of future scientists and technologists in order to encourage them to consider careers in the intelligence community (IC). The NCMR supports DIA’s and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s (ODNI) human capital initiatives through this program and also works closely with the DIA and DNI intern programs.
University-based NCMR representatives nominate promising juniors and seniors for the awards. These students must meet academic requirements, hold U.S. citizenship, and study in areas relevant to IC research areas to qualify for the program. The NCMR awards $5,000 and $10,000 scholarships through the National Science Foundation (NSF).
All nominees must meet the following requirements:
Optics: Lighting the Way to the Future
Please join us in giving a warm OSC welcome to the 18 students who are attending our summer camp this week. The Optical Sciences Camp, sponsored by UA's Office of Continuing Education, is for students in grades 9 through 12 who like science and math. In past years, OSC graduate students and faculty members have worked with the campers and this year Jeremy Govier of Edmund Optics joined us for two special workshops. The camp began on Monday of this week and will finish up tomorrow afternoon. Campers, thank you for joining us and we hope to see you again next year.
Here's a rough list of our camp activities:
Monday, June 9
Tuesday, June 10
Wednesday, June 11
Thursday, June 12
Friday, June 13
Validation Stickers
The 2008-2009 validation stickers for room privilege cards are here and everyone who has a key to Meinel is asked to drop by the Accounting Office, Meinel 641, to pick up a new sticker.
Call for Participation: Assessing 3D Interaction in the SCAPE Environment
A user interface evaluation of SCAPE, an immersive 3D virtual environment developed by faculty and students in the 3DVIS lab at the College of Optical Sciences, is currently being conducted and study participants who meet the following requirements are needed.
The purpose of this study is to compare the quality of various SCAPE user interfaces for exploring 3D datasets. In the test, you will be asked to wear a helmet (Head-Mounted Display) to see a 3D virtual world. You will be asked to look for certain objects in that world and to recall various 3D features. The data collected in this study will be kept entirely anonymous.
The study will consist of two sessions, each on a separate day and consisting of about 90 minutes each. Modest compensation will be provided to all participants for their time. For accounting purposes as required by the University, we will need your SSN or EID; this information will be kept separate from any performance data we collect.
This experiment is expected to run during the second and third weeks of June, session scheduling is flexible. If you are interested in participating, please contact Leonard D. Brown at ldbrown@cs.arizona.edu Thank you for your consideration!
Kimberly Sierra-Cajas and Team Members Receive UA Award for Excellence
The 9-member SROP Team -- The Summer Research Opportunities Program Team -- including Kimberly Sierra-Cajas, OSC's Science and Technology Center Coordinator, has been selected to receive one of three 2007-2008 Peter W. Likins Inclusive Excellence Awards. The recipients are a distinguished group of individuals who have made significant contributions toward enhancing The University of Arizona’s academic excellence by helping to create a diverse and inclusive campus community.
The SROP team works to ensure research opportunities for underrepresented students, and by doing so helps students to pursue graduate education. The SROP Team hosts over 100 students each summer and 85% of its participants go on to pursue graduate education. The SROP Team works together to recruit students, pair them with faculty mentors, provide research workshops, and coordinate the Graduate College Summer Research Conference in which all SROP participants present their research. Congratulations, Kimberly.
Gary Esham Receives UA's Research Administrator Award
Gary Esham, OSC Associate Dean for Finance and Administration, has been selected to receive UA's 2008 Charles H. Peyton Distinguished Research Administrator Award. The Award honors the memory of Charles H. Peyton, who served the UA from 1958 until his retirement in 1992 in a variety of positions including Associate Vice President for Research.
The award is given annually to an individual who best exemplifies sustained excellence in research administration. Those eligible for nomination include UA employees involved in the administration of research grants and contract employment, financial management, regulatory compliance, ethics and Institutional Review Boards, intellectual property, and technology transfer and the management and oversight of research projects. The Award criteria include (1) a high degree of competence, expertise, and sustained excellence in research administration, (2) a commitment to professional development in research administration as demonstrated by participation in professional organizations and university committees, and (3) significant contribution to and impact on research administration within a laboratory, program, or unit, or across the university.
Gary was selected to receive the ward because he encompasses the essence of the award and is a tremendous asset to OSC and UA. Congratulations, Gary.
Optical Sciences Calendar
June 17 2:00 p.m. Meinel 701. PhD Final Oral Defense. Krishna Mohan Gundu will present hp-Finite Element Method for Photonics Applications
Happy Birthday and Best Wishes for a Wonderful Year
June 16 Cesar Brito Nevarez (cbrito@optics.arizona.edu) Anoop George (ageorge@optics.arizona.edu)
June 18 Andrey Alenin (alenin@email.arizona.edu) Daniel Milanese Peng Wu (wpeng@optics.arizona.edu)
June 20 Angus Macleod (angus@thinfilmcenter.com)
June 22 Brandon Allvin (bcallvin@email.arizona.edu) Mir Farrokh Shayegan Salek (msalek@optics.arizona.edu)
June 23 Erich De Leon (edeleon@optics.arizona.edu) Larry Schneider (startrek101@earthlink.net)
June 24 Norman Schenck (norms@optics.arizona.edu)
June 25 Eugene Merzlyak (ymerzlyak@optics.arizona.edu)
June 26 Arkady Bablumyan (abablumyan@yahoo.com) Douglas Essex (douglas.essex@ngc.com) Miroslav Kolesik (kolesik@acms.arizona.edu) Shabnam Virji (svirji@optics.arizona.edu)
June 28 Roland Himmelhuber (rolandh@optics.arizona.edu) R. Jason Jones (rjjones@optics.arizona.edu)
June 29 Lars Furenlid (furen@radiology.arizona.edu) Darren Miller (dmiller@optics.arizona.edu) Aaron Weleck (aaron.weleck@ngc.com)
On Campus
June 13 Noon. Gould-Simpson 906. UA SummerFest Public Lecture. Alaina Levine, Director of Special Projects at UA's College of Science, will present Transitioning from a Technical Professional to a Technical Leader: Positioning, Preparing, and Branding for Leadership Positions in Science and Engineering.
Optical Engineering Co-Op
Other responsibilities include:
Required Qualifications:
Desired Qualification:
Benefits:
If you are interested in this position, please email your resume directly to Colleen Powell at colleen.powell@jdsu.com
JDSU is a leading designer and manufacturer of products for worldwide communication, commercial, and consumer markets. We support a broad portfolio of optical solutions to maintain global communications. Service providers around the world benefit from JDSU's superior production of communication testing and measurement solutions. Our prestigious team of professionals develops precision lasers that play a critical role in semiconductor, biotech, and material processing applications. In addition, JDSU utilizes optics, light, and color for security products as well as entertainment and decorations. With a dynamic workforce spanning the globe and the best technologies for vital fields, JDSU is expected to see exciting growth in the future and to provide outstanding innovations and solutions for its customers and markets.
Our Culture of Invention - which fosters innovation, rewards achievement, and builds upon the tremendous legacy of intellectual property development within all of our market segments - is a critical growth engine for our company.
We provide our employees with challenging and rewarding work every day. We help them stay involved with the latest technological advancements in our industry. JDSU fosters a culture that encourages employees to develop themselves both personally and professionally. As a company, we have ambitious goals and realize we cannot get there without the valuable contributions of our employees.
JDSU is a College of Optical Sciences Industrial Affiliate at the Leadership Partners level.
For more information about our Industrial Affiliates program and the member companies that partner with us in educating the next generation of optical engineers and optical scientists, please visit http://www.optics.arizona.edu/Affiliates/default.htm
Please visit our optics employment Web site at http://www.optics.arizona.edu/employment/default.htm
Senior Electro-Optical Engineer. Lightfleet. Lightfleet is an emerging early staged Pre-IPO growth company that has invented the world's first free-space broadcast optical interconnect. Simply put, Lightfleet has created a new way for computers to communicate using light instead of wires. Lightfleet's CorowaveTM technology streamlines computer-to-computer communication by empowering computers to directly talk to each other over short distances through the air with broadcast light. Why is this important? The biggest technology revolution in the way we work, learn, play, and interact with the world has just begun. The growing tidal wave of demand for digital data is unprecedented and will continue to grow geometrically in size for many years to come. These highly dense computer installations produce a lot of heat that also must be removed and this can quickly more than double the total electrical power consumed. There is a growing concern over the cost of electricity and it is predicted that this cost will soon exceed the purchase price of the computer hardware it supplies. Lightfleet's breakthrough technology allows our first product, an innovative form factor server, to be 1/3 the size and use 1/3 the electricity of any comparable product while also being significantly faster by unleashing the true potential of parallel computing. Lightfleet is actively searching to fill our Sr. Electro-Optical Engineering position. The successful candidate will bring to Lightfleet their expertise in design and development of electro-optical systems. This will include: Strong background in working with high speed electro-optical devices including transmitters and receivers. Optical design and modeling of components and systems. Performing laboratory work entailing (1) test and characterization of high speed electro-optical components and systems (including BER testing, analyzing eye patterns, etc.), (2) test and characterization of passive optical components, (3) alignment of passive and active components, and (4) working with optical metrology tools. Documenting technical reports, work instructions and engineering drawings. Requirements: 5+ years commercial experience in design, development, and testing of optical and electro-optical components and systems. Master’s degree in Electrical, Optical, or Mechanical Engineering (or equivalent). Experience using commercially available optical design tools (such as Zemax, ASAP, LightTools, Code V, R-Soft, etc.) Strong experience with design for manufacturability and reliability. Strong knowledge of geometric and physical optics. Good understanding of opto-electronic device physics. Ability to work with mechanical engineers in developing optical platform sub-assemblies / assemblies. Ability to work both independently and in a group setting. Current eligibility to work in the U.S.A. Desired qualifications: Doctorate Degree in Electrical, Optical, or Mechanical Engineering (or equivalent). Experience working in an early stage company. Familiarity with LabVIEW. Have worked on multiple product development cycles from concept through production. Knowledge of computer architectures (preferred but not required). Excellent communication skills to be able to work effectively with cross-functional teams. For More Information: Please visit our website at www.lightfleet.com To Apply: Please send your resume to careers@lightfleet.com Lightfleet Corporation is an equal opportunity employer.
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