Undergraduate Photonics Design and Experimentation Laboratory

除了其研究生学位课程所展示的对电光（EO）教育的长期承诺外，该大学的电气计算机工程（ECE）和物理系现在正在将EO完全整合到本科课程中。 为此，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专业开发EO浓度。 该浓度在许多方面类似于在自己的主要部门内追求的未成年人学位课程，并在毕业时在学生的正式成绩单上注明。 本科EO浓度的结构要求学生参加四个EO相关的技术选修课。 这些课程是在光纤，光学线性系统，光电子学和物理光学领域。 虽然物理光学课程侧重于基本原理，其余课程更注重实践。 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，演示和实验组件，这些选修课构成了新的本科EO浓度的核心。本科生光子学实验室激发了对本科生研究的浓厚兴趣，并进一步推动了妇女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家公司定期雇用具有EO背景的员工。 新的本科EO浓度使学生更有吸引力，这些公司都合作，并在毕业后，全职员工。 *

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. *