Undergraduate Photonics Design and Experimentation Laboratory

本科生光子学设计与实验实验室

• 批准号: 9750742
• 负责人: Bradley Duncan
• 金额: $ 3万
• 依托单位: University of Dayton
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-08-15 至 1999-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9750742&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Undergraduate; Photonics; Design; Experimentation; Laboratory

In addition to its long-standing commitment to education in electro-optics (EO) demonstrated by its graduate degree programs, the university's Departments of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) and Physics are now integrating EO fully into the undergraduate curriculum. To this end the Physics Department and the ECE Undergraduate Studies Committee are developing an EO Concentration exclusively for ECE and Physics majors. The concentration is in many ways similar to a minor degree program pursued within one's own major department and is indicated on a student's official transcript upon graduation. The structure of the undergraduate EO Concentration requires students to take four EO-related technical electives. These courses are in the areas of Fiber Optics, Linear Systems in Optics, Optoelectronics, and Physical Optics. Though the Physical Optics course focuses on basic principles, the remaining courses are more practice oriented. This project develops a dedicated Undergraduate Photonics Laboratory to support the design, demonstration, and experimentation components of the ECE technical electives composing the heart of the new undergraduate EO Concentration. The Undergraduate Photonics Laboratory stimulates strong interest in undergraduate research and furthers the efforts of the Women in Engineering Program. Another program potentially to be benefited by the Undergraduate Photonics Laboratory is the Get Smart program. Lastly, there are approximately 86 companies within Ohio that regularly hire employees with EO backgrounds. The new undergraduate EO concentration makes students more attractive to these companies as both co-op and, upon graduation, full-time employees. *

除了其研究生学位课程对电光(EO)教育的长期承诺外，该大学的电气与计算机工程(ECA)和物理系现在正将EO完全纳入本科课程。为此，物理系和欧洲经委会本科生研究委员会正在专门为欧洲经委会和物理学专业的学生开设EO课程。这种专注度在许多方面类似于在自己主修系内攻读的辅修学位课程，学生毕业后的官方成绩单上会注明这一点。本科生EO集中的结构要求学生选修四门与EO相关的技术选修课。这些课程涉及光纤、光学线性系统、光电子学和物理光学。虽然物理光学课程侧重于基本原理，但其余课程更注重实践。该项目开发了一个专门的本科生光子学实验室，以支持构成新本科生EO集中的核心部分的欧洲教育技术选修课的设计、演示和实验部分。本科生光子学实验室激发了人们对本科生研究的浓厚兴趣，并进一步推动了工程女性项目的努力。另一个可能受益于本科生光子学实验室的项目是Get Smart项目。最后，俄亥俄州大约有86家公司定期雇佣具有首席执行官背景的员工。新的本科生EO集中度使学生对这些公司更具吸引力，既是合作员工，也是毕业后的全职员工。*