Mar 10, 2025
Although community colleges were originally established to be transfer institutions to prepare students to enter universities, they’re now adapting their programs and structures to train tomorrow’s workforce. It’s a vital role, as technology and competition shift...
Mar 10, 2025
Inspiring moments. Powerful connections. Workforce promise. AmeriCOM was energized to take part once again in the largest annual optics and photonics event of the year. SPIE Photonics West 2025 – which ran January 25-30 at San Francisco’s Moscone Center — was, as...
Feb 24, 2025
Millions Invested in Training Precision Diamond Turning Workers Published Tuesday Dec 3, 2024 Author Scott Merrill Carter Smith, a junior sustainable product design & innovation major at Keene State, pictured in front of diamond turning instrumentation. (Courtesy...
Jan 23, 2025
AmeriCOM is proud to partner with TOC to develop manufacturing and assembly processes that lead to scalable modular imaging systems. The manufacturing technologies developed under this effort not only drive commercialization of imaging systems with applications in...
Jan 23, 2025
Gallatin College Montana State University, in Bozeman, MT, has played a key role in the rapid growth of the photonics and remote sensing industry in the southwest region of the state. A key component of the College’s workforce training and development efforts, its...
Jan 23, 2025
AmeriCOM thanks Front Range Community College (FRCC) for shining a light on Hannah Scarbrough, an Optics & Laser Technology student, Metallica Scholar, and apprentice with Excelitas Technologies Corp. As part of the apprenticeship program, a partnership between...