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  Erin McDermott's invited talk at SPIE's Optical Engineering + Applications conference August 2025 is now available online here:https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3066535    It was part of the Nonimaging Optics Conference program seen here:https://nonimaging-conference.org/program-2025/    From vast experience

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We got enough questions on optical engineering education that we decided to do a whole thing on it. And here it is! Last year, our Director of Optical Engineering, Erin