Graduating Optics Major with a BS from University of Rochester Advice/Jobs?!
 

As the title says I'm going to be a new optics graduate witha BS from University of Rochester. Anybody have connections/advice/jobs?

i'd check with the alumni association and/or the job placement/career center at your school.. they will be the best connections for you..

Yup have done so. And I've a prospective job pretty much lined up.
Being as the optics community was so small I was mainly curious to see if anybody on the forum was in the loop. Then again more networking/job offers aren't discouraged ^^

What is a BS in optics, anyway?

Are we talking like optomometry? Fiber optics? I didn't know such a degree existed. :)

Take a look: http://www.optics.rochester.edu/

To put it really generally, the understanding of light. Sounds kinda lame, but you can go into so many branches of science.

From ECE-electroptics, BME-endoscopes..medical instruments, Physics..lasers

Fiber optics, fusion processes, ANY type of imaging system (run of the mill digital camera/ reconnaissance/satellites/copy machines), anything illumination (your car headlights), etc.

It's a pretty small program. Only 2 undergrad programs. Rochester,NY and Tuscon,Az

As another hailing from Rochester AND from Arizona ... Kodak. Xerox. If you haven't hit the Big Two, Sue U of R, heh.

Are there any professional organizations for Optics? That would give you networking footfolds.

Go for a cool synchrotron gig. Those guys have money lying around. They need someone like you to push a shovel around and pick up all of those government grants.

You could always go into a PhD program and try to become an X-ray crystallographer..

Man.. tis painful tho! : )
Someday I will get good crystals.... someday

Fuck me, you guys are sending light BACKWARDS?

If this is the case, you don't need us to find you a job, you need to explain to us the practical implications of this discovery...

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