OPSE Course Description
OPSE 601 - Advanced Topics
OPSE 601 is designed to be a research/independent study course which allows the student to interact with the faculty in their research labs in small, focused groups.
The prerequisites for the course are OPSE 402 for undergraduates. The course will also be taken by new graduate students. As with the other optics course, this course is multidisciplinary. However, in OPSE 601 the students will study the experimental topics in more detail. Of the available topics, the students must pick three (one month duration) projects to be completed during the semester.
These projects are to be done in groups of 1 or 2 students in the respective faculty's research laboratories. The small class size will enable individual attention and intensified training in laboratory techniques and research. The students will be required to do preliminary background reading/lectures in their topics of choice, set up the experiment, acquire and analyze data. At the end of 1 month, the student group will rotate to another project. Using this student rotation scheme, the number of students in the laboratories can be kept at a manageable level while the students have the opportunity to use modern optical research tools while conducting their experiments under close guidance of the faculty and associated members (e.g. graduate students, undergraduate assistants, post-docs) of the faculty member's research group.
For the course's final exam, the student must present a 15 minute
oral presentation on one of the month long projects. For many incoming graduate students,
this oral presentation may be the first time that they are required to organize and
publicly present their research. The topics are chosen based on their relevance to current
research, ability to be completed in the allotted time, and student interest. The list of
topics will be constantly updated as research progresses in the respective fields. The
topics are a mixture of recently completed and ongoing research.
Last updated 8/24/98 / File: des601.htm / Hee Chuan
LIM / hcl4186@megahertz.njit.edu