CREOL e-Highlights Vol 1 Iss 4

Vol. 1,
Issue #4
July 2005

Greetings Friends of CREOL:

Welcome to e-Highlights, published monthly by the The College of Optics and Photonics: CREOL & FPCE. In this issue we feature links to our summer edition of Highlights (soon to be in the mail); provide information about our new online courses offered via streaming video; announce a new NSF-funded partnership between 9th grade teachers and our graduate students; and tell you about the latest award received by one of our graduate students.

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Best regards,

Jim Pearson

Director, Research & Administration

The College of Optics & Photonics: CREOL & FPCE

SUMMER ISSUE OF HIGHLIGHTS NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE

The Summer 2005 issue of Highlights has gone to press with delivery set for mid July. Wonderful technical content fills this issue, such as "Photonics Research Advances Ultra High-Speed Communications," with contributions from Peter Delfyett, Guifang Li, and Patrick LiKamWa, plus an article on "A Variable-Focus Liquid Lens," from S.T. Wu. To view this latest edition online, or to see downloadable PDF versions of past issues of Highlights and e-Highlights, please visit the following link: http://www.creol.ucf.edu/about/highlights/

NEW ONLINE COURSES OFFERED VIA STREAMING VIDEO

The College of Optics and Photonics Office of Academic Programs continues to offer online classes for degree seeking and non-degree seeking students. As an added incentive, we decided to waive the application fee for employees of current Affiliate Companies. For more information, or to apply for degree seeking or non-degree seeking admission, please send e-mail to: gradprog@creol.ucf.edu .

In Fall 2006, the offered online classes are:

OSE 5111 Optical wave propagation
Instructor: Jim Moharam

OSE 5203 Fundamentals of Applied Optics
Instructor: James Harvey

OSE 5414 Fundamentals of Optoelectronics
Instructor: Patrick LiKamWa

In Spring 2006, the offered online classes are:

OSE 5115 Interference, Diffraction and Coherence (Tentative)
Instructor: TBA

OSE 5312 Fundamentals of Optical Science
Instructor: David Hagan

OSE 6525 Laser Engineering
Instructor: Martin Richardson

In Summer 2006, the offered online class are:

OSE 6432 Fundamentals of Photonics (Summer "D")
Instructor: Patrick LiKamWa

NSF FUNDS PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN TEACHERS AND STUDENTS

David Hagan, associate dean for academic programs, received a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant that funds graduate students to work with teachers in local schools. The program, called the "Greater Orlando GK-12 Program," is a partnership between the University of Central Florida (UCF), the Orlando Science Center (OSC) and Orange County Public Schools (OCPS). The program focuses on assisting Orange County teachers with their 9th grade integrated science curriculum by pairing them with Ph.D. students who help them develop inquiry-based learning modules.

The NSF has granted the project $1.5 million to fund 21 graduate fellows and seven undergraduate fellows from STEM programs over the next three years. For more information on GK-12 please visit the following link: http://www.creol.ucf.edu/academics/GK12/

O'DANIEL AWARDED D.E.P.S. SCHOLARSHIP

Congratulations to third year graduate student Jason O'Daniel, selected by the Directed Energy Professional Society (DEPS) to receive a scholarship for the 2006-2007 academic year. Jason works on wavelength stabilization of high power laser diodes with his thesis advisor, Dr. Eric Johnson , who heads the CREOL Micro Photonics Laboratory.