Your precious engineers will be increasingly disabled by a shortage of optics technicians. What can be done?

Abstract

The global optics, photonics, and imaging industry is growing, but a worldwide shortage of optics technicians exists. Engineers are being called upon to do the work of optics technicians. This paper describes how Monroe Community College, the United States' only community college awarding associate degrees in precision optics, is educating diverse optics and photonics technicians.