Career Pathways for STEM Technicians

This 307-page book, from the National Center for Optics and Photonics Education (OP-TEC), discusses and offers a solution to America's technician shortage in STEM fields. The proposed solution "is to create career pathways for STEM technicians in existing 4000 STEM high schools that would inform, encourage, recruit, and prepare students to enter community college associate degree programs in emerging technologies." The following are examples of the 15 chapters included in the book:

1. Our Country's Technology Edge is Fading Quickly
2. Curriculum and Teaching Strategies for STEM Technicians
3. High School STEM Initiatives
4. Creating Career Pathways for STEM Technicians
5. Dual Enrollment's Role in STEM Pathways
6. Secondary/Postsecondary Programs of Study for Photonics Technicians
7. Secondary/Postsecondary Programs of Study for Biomanufacturing Technicians
8. Secondary/Postsecondary Programs of Study for Information and Communications Technicians