Optics, a most valuable degree

1. Optics, a most valuable degree

2. Context Environment Positioning

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

8. Civil Mechanical Electrical Aerospace Optical www.payscale.com ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1166857http: www.engineersalary.com/women.asp www.bls.gov/oco/ocos027.htm • http://societyofwomenengineers.swe.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=224&Itemid=112#EEbyGender

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

10. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1995 Graduate, 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 José Mario Molina-Pasquel Henríquez 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.”

11. 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 Dr. Steven Chu U.S. Secretary of Energy “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.”

12. Teachers create the UTL CBOAA Written 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. Universidad Tecnologica de lEON http://www.utleon.edu.mx//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=138&Itemid=125 (

13. 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. Augen High definition lenses http://www.augenoptics.com/index/Main/Augen_Usa/Home.html

14. 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/ Photo: Courtesy of the University of Arizona. Fernando martinez, M. D. PhD “To be effective, the value of what we do, what we provide to the community must be communicated.”

15. Dean, UA College of Science and Arts Professor, Geochemistry http://cos.arizona.edu/ Photo: Courtesy of the University of Arizona. Joaquin RUIZ, Ph. D. “There is so much these students can do with the fine education they receive. They must decide. And they must act.”

16. 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.” Jim Gentile, Ph.D.

17. Executive Research Group, Boston, MA LindaUsher@aol.com Linda Usher “'How you spend the early days of your career is guaranteed to impact what you will be doing in 10, 20 or 30 years. ”

18. Founder of New Focus Serial entrepreneur www.incubic.com Milton Chang, PhD • “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.

19. Yash Sabharwal B.S., Optics, University of Rochester Ph.D., Optical Science, University of Arizona [Dissertation: Remote-access slit-scanning confocal microscope for in-vivo tumor diagnosis, 1998] Optical Insights -- Scientific and industrial users of multispectral and polarization imaging Founded – 1997 [2 partners (see pic., L.)] Exit – 2005, Sold to Photometrics, a division of Roper Scientific

20. 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.” “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.”

21. 1. Communicate 2. Develop legal awareness 3. Financing 4. Business Plan 5. Positioning/Marketing

22. Write Op-Eds 2/Yr. Maintain a professional photo Prepare “Elevator Statement” Invite a Science Editor or Tech Reporter to lunch Meet Elected Officials

23. New York Times editor Posts at Miami Herald, Associated Press and New York Times. Teaches journalism at the University of Arizona, Stanford and Columbia PhD in Public Administration, ASU Fulbright fellowships to teach in Nigeria, Uganda and Malaysia Ford burkhart 'burkhart@email.arizona.edu'

24. Joseph E. Gortych, Esq. jgortych@magiqtech.com Opticus Ip Law PLLC http://www.opticus-ip.com • Yakov Sidorin, Ph.D., Esq. • Attorney, Intellectual Property • yakov.sidorin@quarles.com Protect Your ideas (intellectual Property)

25. 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] Start-up capital

26. www.businessplans.org www.score.org The business plan

27. Ideas, Questions?kathleentperkins@comcast.net

28. Thank you!