ONeill, A., & Kane, T. (2023, March), Experiments in Optics and Photonics Engineering Education at Penn State  Paper presented at ASEE Zone 1 Conference - Spring 2023, State College,, Pennsylvania. 10.18260/1-2--45079

\bibitem{asee_peer_45079}
  ONeill, A., \& Kane, T. (2023, March), \emph{Experiments in Optics and Photonics Engineering Education at Penn State}
  Paper presented at ASEE Zone 1 Conference - Spring 2023, State College,, Pennsylvania.
  10.18260/1-2--45079

Andrew ONeill and Tim Kane.  "Experiments in Optics and Photonics Engineering Education at Penn State".  ASEE Zone 1 Conference - Spring 2023, State College,, Pennsylvania, 2023, March.  ASEE Conferences, 2023.  https://peer.asee.org/45079 Internet.  20 Apr, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_45079}
  Andrew ONeill and Tim Kane.
  "Experiments in Optics and Photonics Engineering Education at Penn State".
  \emph{ASEE Zone 1 Conference - Spring 2023, State College,, Pennsylvania, 2023, March}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2023.
  https://peer.asee.org/45079 Internet.  20 Apr, 2025

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - During the fall semester of 2022 an experimental first-year seminar on applied optics was taught for the first time at The Pennsylvania State University. The ongoing goals of the course are to recruit students to electrical engineering and to retain them while steering students towards a specialization in optics and photonics. This was attempted through hands-on experiments demonstrating basic concepts in optics, and tours of laboratories on campus that demonstrate the wide range of applications of electrical and optical engineering. Experiments included aligning fiber optics, building telescopes, building pinhole cameras, experiments with fluorescence spectroscopy, transmission spectroscopy, and demonstrations of polarization. The following semester a senior level experiment based course on applied spectroscopy was offered as well. While the audience for the two courses differ, the goals are much the same to recruit and retain students in optics and photonics. The effectiveness of course presentation in each case is evaluated based on student response and feedback. The two courses’ materials will be compared and improvements will be discussed.  
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