Abstract

The optics faculty at the University of New Mexico (UNM) are proposing to create a Master’s degree program in Optical Science and Engineering. A natural complement to the highly successful Ph.D. program in optics over the past 15 years at UNM, the Master’s program, unlike the Ph.D. program, will be a multiple-option program that will serve the educational, research, and training needs of an entire spectrum of students, professionals, and institutions. Currently only in the stages of a well developed proposal, it has garnered wide support from industry, academia, and government laboratories in the State of New Mexico, and is on track for an expected implementation in Fall 2000.

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