This two-day workshop will provide an opportunity to get in on the ground floor in educating technicians for one of the most exciting and fastest growing technologies - photonics! Optics and photonics applications are rapidly transforming the way we work and live. Photonics, and its applications, involve the cutting-edge use of lasers, optics, fiber-optics, sensors, cameras, and electro-optical devices. Photonics has many applications in manufacturing, medicine, aerospace, communications, security, solid-state lighting, and other high-tech fields.