Any work with light, lenses, lasers, or mirrors is called optical engineering. Optical engineers bend and bounce light to make it useful for humans. Examples are telescopes, invisibility, nanomedicine, and solar energy. This...

Second in a series on optics, this video will inspire viewers to consider optical engineering. Several optical engineers are paraded onscreen, sharing a tip about the field or tidbits about how they pursued it. Show this video, along...

This module is about a particular effect of the frequency, which is the stroboscopic effect. The lesson discusses and demonstrates low frequency phenomena - less than 16 Hz - that can usually be observed clearly by the human eye, as well...

Students apply their knowledge of light and optical engineering as they imagine, plan, create, test, and improve their own lighting systems.

Students think like optical engineers as they explore how light interacts with a variety of materials. [8:19]

A storybook introduces the engineering challenge and context. In this story, Omar, a boy from Egypt, learns about optical engineering as he helps design his own lighting system. [10:50]

Students apply their knowledge of light and optical engineering as they imagine, plan, create, test, and improve their own lighting systems.

Students apply their knowledge of light and optical engineering as they imagine, plan, create, test, and improve their own lighting systems.

Students think like optical engineers as they explore how light interacts with a variety of materials. [12:50]

A storybook introduces the engineering challenge and context. In this story, Omar, a boy from Egypt, learns about optical engineering as he helps design his own lighting system. [14:51]