Undergraduate Photonics Design and Experimentation Laboratory

除了长期致力于电光学（EO）教育的研究生学位课程外，该大学的电气与计算机工程系（ECE）和物理系现在正在将EO完全整合到本科课程中。为此目的，物理系和欧洲经委会本科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发一种EO集中课程。该专业在很多方面类似于自己专业的辅修学位课程，并在学生毕业时的正式成绩单上注明。本科EO专业的结构要求学生选修四门与EO相关的技术选修课。这些课程包括光纤、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，但其他课程更注重实践。该项目开发了一个专门的本科光子学实验室，以支持ECE技术选修课的设计、演示和实验部分，这些选修课构成了新的本科光电专业的核心。本科光子学实验室激发了对本科研究的强烈兴趣，并进一步推动了女性在工程项目中的努力。另一个可能受益于本科光子学实验室的项目是Get Smart项目。最后，俄亥俄州大约有86家公司定期雇用EO背景的员工。对于这些公司来说，新的本科行政管理课程使学生无论是作为带薪实习，还是毕业后成为全职员工，都更具吸引力。＊

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. *