Industry Engagement
Keep up-to-date with the latest industry advancements in the broader photonics community. Below are articles focused on the engagement of IEEE Photonics members working in industry, as well as industry-relevant training and continuing education advice.
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Life at a Photonics Startup: Lessons Learned Seeing the Light—A Transition from Academia to Industry
Introduction
In this edition of the Industry Engagement column, we talk with Dalma Novak, the current Chair of the Photonics Society’s Industry Engagement Committee.
What is your current professional job?
I am VP of Engineering at Octane Wireless which is located in Hanover, Maryland. We are a small ...
Life at a Photonics Startup
Learning and Development: An Organizational Structure to Manage and Develop Your Skills as a Young Professional
“If you want to be leading the world, you have to be learning,” states David Perring, Director of Research, Fosway Group as part of the recently published LinkedIn Learning report on “The Transformation of L&D”.
Learning and Development (L&D) is defined by the Association for Talent ...
Life at a Photonics Startup
Developing Hire Power
The success of a high-tech startup will depend very strongly on the strength of its team. This is a self-evident truth. It is true for all companies, of any size, but it is particularly true for smaller organizations that are in the early stages of ...
Life at a Photonics Startup: Lessons Learned
The Role of Small Business Innovation Research in Defense Photonics
Introduction
In the United States, the U S. Small Business Administration (SBA) works to ignite change and spark action so small businesses can confidently start, grow, expand, or recover. The Technology Program at the SBA helps to strengthen and expand the competitiveness of U.S. small high-technology ...
Life at a Photonics Startup: Lessons Learned
Managing Time as an Early Career Professional
1. Introduction
Time management is a never-ending topic, and while there are lots of articles on the internet focusing on work-life balance, early career professionals (ECPs) seem to have some unique challenges in comparison to their more established counterparts, this is further amplified when an ECP ...
Life at a Photonics Startup: Lessons Learned Working at Startups: A Close-up View
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Startups, particularly tech startups, have been having a golden time, with some stellar success stories. It is easy to feel like you just missed the next Facebook (Meta?), Uber, Tesla or Amazon, with regards to being an early stakeholder, envious of those lucky first ...
Life at a Photonics Startup: Lessons Learned
SWOT Analysis — A Powerful Tool for Strategic Thinking
SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis is a strategic planning technique that can provide an organization or a person with significant insight regarding favorable or unfavorable factors (both internal and external) that affect their business or project. It is a tried-and-true tool of strategic analysis that has been used by m...
Life at a Photonics Startup: Lessons Learned
Writing Successful Proposals: The Legacy of George H. Heilmeier
The ability to write meaningful and successful proposals is a key skill for those enjoying the adventures of life at a photonics startup—whether they take the shape of a business plan to be presented to investors, a product development plan to be presented to commercial customers or a technology research plan to be presented to government cust...
Life at a Photonics Startup: Lessons Learned
Early days in a venture-backed high-growth photonics startup (or: I’d like money for lasers, please!)
It's the sixth year of co-founding my startup, Baraja, and as we prepare to roll out incredible photonic technologies for the next generation in high-performance LIDAR, I have to admit, sheepishly: I don't know how I ended up here.
Life at a Photonics Startup: Lessons Learned
Manufacturing Integrated Photonics or – So You Want to Be an Entrepreneur? Part 2: Production Is Not Development
Part 2 of last month's Industry Engagement. The repetition of production processes is typically driven by economics and the confidence of the development cycle, not the next novel feature or cool science. Most development engineers seek to change the product or service and implement new capability or new designs. Production engineers seek to satisf...