This has been a very successful venture and is always a great pleasure for us. Membership fees also provide full or partial funding for twenty-four graduate student teaching assistants, twelve during the spring semester and another twelve during the fall semester. Laboratory work is an important part of the graduate and undergraduate programs at the Optical Sciences Center. The curriculum is also enhanced by companies that contribute optical design software. This software is reserved for graduate and undergraduate student use in optical design courses, enabling students to graduate from our program with both practical and theoretical design experience.
Scholarships are yet another important contribution.
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