Using Current Photonics Students to Recruit New Students

This 25-page document, developed by the National Center for Optics and Photonics Education (OP-TEC), describes how current students enrolled in photonics courses at an educational institution can be utilized to improve recruitment rates of new photonics students. Sections of this resource include: Preface, Background, Student Recruitment Practices, Creating a Recruitment Project to Teach Photonics Students Soft Skills, and Recruitment Events and Tools. The Student Recruitment Practices section includes detailed descriptions of student recruitment practices at three educational institutions. The resource concludes with links to additional resources and tools