Oct 29, 2023
Highlights from Optifab 2023 Thousands of optics industry experts and professionals from around the world gathered at North America’s largest optical fabrication exhibition. SPIE and APOMA organized Optifab 2023 in Rochester, NY in mid-October with a full agenda of...
Oct 29, 2023
Organizations involved in workforce development, like AmeriCOM, rely directly on community colleges to design and deliver the training programs that result in work-ready technicians. Josanne DeNatale, AmeriCOM’s National Marketing and Workforce Development Operations...
Sep 19, 2023
With federal policy significantly impacting the optics and photonics industry, AmeriCOM has once again sponsored SPIE’s upcoming Photonics Industry Summit in Washington D.C. later this month. This marks the second of what is now an annual summit to raise the profile...
Sep 19, 2023
James Losasso has a passion for optics. With 25 years of experience fabricating precision optics for defense, aerospace, telecommunications, and other applications, he also loves to share that passion with the next generation of technicians. James currently teaches...
Aug 25, 2023
If it seems counterproductive to encourage your top employees to spend less time at work, then allowing them to leave on “company time” may sound downright imprudent. Yet every year, high-performing employees at Thorlabs in Newton, NJ take time away from work to teach...
Aug 25, 2023
Luke Edelman worked for minimum wage as a contractor and handyman. He clearly remembers the 98-degree day he was in a cramped crawl space beneath an apartment complex, clad in a thick Tyvek suit with goggles and facemask, wading through a lake of raw sewage, to fix a...
