OPTICS, A MOST VALUABLE DEGREE

ContextEnvironmentPositioning

SPIE• The International Society for

Optics & Photonics founded in 1955

• Offices in the EU & USA• A not-for profit educational society• 16,000 members, 4,300 student members, 425

corporate members• 190,000 active constituents representing 143 countries

SPIE Services• Education & training: short courses, DVDs, in-

company training (over 800 courses)• SPIEWorks jobsite (www.SPIEWorks.org)• Digital Library with 290,000 papers• 7 peer reviewed journals • SPIE Newsroom – photonics news & articles• Membership and networking• 38,000 attendees at 26 SPIE conferences and 16

exhibitions annually

SPIE Non-profit Activities• $292,000 USD in Scholarships annually• $90,000 USD in Outreach Grants annually• Visiting Lecturer Program• UNESCO Active learning in Optics and Photonics (ALOP)• International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) Winter College

and library support• Hands-on Optics for kids• 141 Student Chapters• Women in Optics

www.payscale.comubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1166857http:www.engineersalary.com/women.aspwww.bls.gov/oco/ocos027.htmhttp://societyofwomenengineers.swe.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=224&Itemid=112#EEbyGender

Aerospace

Mechanical

Electrical

Optical

Civil

http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/cms/challenges.aspx

JOSÉ MARIO MOLINA-PASQUEL HENRÍQUEZ

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1995Graduate, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México ; Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg, Germany; & University of California, Berkeley Advisor, Presidents of the EUM & USA Chemist & Professor, UC San Diego, UC Irvine, JPL at Caltech, and MIT Pioneer in addressing climate change

Dr. Mario Molina at Senate of EUM.

“The planet is just too small for developing countries to repeat the economic growth in the same way that the rich countries have done it in the past. Clearly, something has to change.”

DR. STEVEN CHU U.S. SECRETARY OF ENERGY

Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Professor, Physics and Molecular and Cellular Biology at University of California, Berkeley Nobel Prize for physics in 1997

Dr. Steve Chu

“People caused global warming. People, with science’s help, can solve it. We’re trying to communicate that climate change is very, very serious, but hey, by the way, this is an incredible economic opportunity.”

UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLOGICA DE LEON

Teachers create the UTL CBOAAWritten by N. America Rodriguez Orihuela Thursday, 04 September 2008

Leon, Guanajuato. On August 29 this year David Asael Hernandez and Hector Gutierrez Arellano Sotelo, professors at the Universidad Tecnologica de Leon, and Dr. Ingrid Villasenor Fraga, IMSS, signed the charter of the company CBOAA SA Ltd., (Center for Applied Optics and Biotechnology Associates), created to strengthen the scientific and technological development in the state in the area of Biotechnology Optics.

The company has three lines of research: medical, renewable energy and conservation and cell manipulation.

http://www.utleon.edu.mx//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=138&Itemid=125(

AUGEN HIGH DEFINITION LENSES

Augen Optics is an international lens design and manufacturing company based in Ensenada, Mexico. We’re proud to be a technology-driven organization with our own team of in-house scientists, researchers and computer and equipment engineers dedicated to all phases of the eyeglass lens development and delivery process.

http://www.augenoptics.com/index/Main/Augen_Usa/Home.html

FERNANDO MARTINEZ, M. D. PHD

Photo: Courtesy of theUniversity of Arizona.

Director for the BIO5 Institute at the University of Arizona (UA). Director of the UA College of Medicine's Arizona Respiratory Center.http://bio5.arizona.edu/

“To be effective, the value of what we do, what we provide to the community must be communicated.”

JOAQUIN RUIZ, Ph. D.

Dean, UA College of Science and ArtsProfessor, Geochemistryhttp://cos.arizona.edu/

“There is so much these students can do with the fine education they receive. They must decide. And they must act.”

Photo: Courtesy of the University of Arizona.

JIM GENTILE, Ph.D.

CEO Research Corporation www.rescorp.org

“ Think in terms of systems science. Taking it apart won’t tell you how it works, science must be studied in a fluid, informed way. Form teams as the questions are becoming bigger and increasingly complex and increasingly expensive to address. Be careful of myopia, not to wall yourself off.”

LINDA USHER

Executive Research Group, Boston, MALindaUsher@aol.com

“'How you spend the early days of your career is guaranteed to impact what you will be doing in 10, 20 or 30 years. ”

MILTON CHANG, PhD

Founder of New Focus Serial entrepreneur

www.incubic.com

“Take an interest in business…The best advice I have gotten at Caltech from a business professor is to read Business Week, Forbes, WSJ, and Fortune. I have been doing so since 1965! Learned a lot.”

“Take on a job where you are given project management responsibilities…and work really hard at it while you learn from everyone involved, including your boss. Become a specialist (in technology) and also become broadly knowledgeable (including business, and what companies do) and broadly networked in terms of people you know.

Optical Insights -- Scientific and industrial users of multispectral and polarization imagingFounded – 1997 [2 partners (see pic., L.)]Exit – 2005, Sold to Photometrics, a division of Roper Scientific

Yash SabharwalB.S., Optics, University of RochesterPh.D., Optical Science, University of Arizona [Dissertation: Remote-access slit-scanning confocal microscope for in-vivo tumor diagnosis, 1998]

“Entrepreneurship is not taught – there is a huge commitment. And if you don’t want success to happen bad enough, its' probably not, unless you're very, very lucky.”Yash Sabharwal

A Key Business Lesson:“One of the key things we learned was not to get too bogged down in how cool the technology is, but to focus on the market. We let our customers tell us what they wanted.”

1. Communicate2. Develop legal awareness3. Financing4. Business Plan5. Positioning/Marketing

Write Op-Eds 2/Yr.Maintain a professional photoPrepare “Elevator Statement”Invite a Science Editor or Tech Reporter to lunchMeet Elected Officials

FORD BURKHART

New York Times editorPosts at Miami Herald, Associated Press and New York Times.Teaches journalism at the University of Arizona, Stanford and ColumbiaPhD in Public Administration, ASUFulbright fellowships to teach in Nigeria, Uganda and Malaysia

'burkhart@email.arizona.edu'

PROTECT YOUR IDEAS (INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY)

Joseph E. Gortych, Esq.jgortych@magiqtech.comOpticus Ip Law PLLChttp://www.opticus-ip.com

Yakov Sidorin, Ph.D., Esq.Attorney, Intellectual Propertyyakov.sidorin@quarles.com

START-UP CAPITAL

Find Investors

Science Foundation of Arizona www.sfaz.org

National Venture Capital Association www.nvca.org Angel Investor Networks

In Mexico [See: www.TechNewsArizona.com]

THE BUSINESS PLAN

www.businessplans.orgwww.score.org

IDEAS, QUESTIONS?

kathleentperkins@comcast.net

THANK YOU!