Work-Based LearningHE-STEM UPSKILL Project

Professor K Alan ShoreBangor University

School of Electronic Engineering

Outline • UPSKILL Definition• Approach to Learning • Background :

Photonics Academy of Wales @ Bangor ( PAWB)/Road Testing• Implementation for industry• Towards Sustainability

Project

• UPSKILL : User-driven Photonics Skills Improvement via Life-long Learning

Using Photonics as the Enabling Technology to inspire an enthusiasm for all STEM concepts

Approach to Learning

• Challenge-based : use a characteristic of light to devise a novel photonics device of societal benefit

• Hands-on : design and build• Start with the Solutions, not the problems

Background :Academi Ffotoneg Cymru@ BangorPhotonics Academy of Wales@ Bangor (PAWB)

• Photonics Academy Summer School (PASS) - SPIE Education Outreach Award

• EUSPEN Challenge 2011: Cambridge University• Work Experience Opportunities

WIMCS

Photonics Academy Summer School (PASS)

Photonics Academy Summer School (PASS)

European Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology (EUSPEN )

EUSPEN Challenge 2011 Institute for Manufacturing , Cambridge University

EUSPEN Challenge 2011

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EUSPEN Challenge 2011

EUSPEN Challenge 2011Downing College, Cambridge University

Work Experience in PAWB

UPSKILL Implementation

• “Ingenuity in Light in Control” 3-Day Photonics Master Class Design Solutions Opportunities for Company Staff and FE Engineering Students : MAGNOX, Qioptiq

• “LENS (Light Enabling Novel Solutions)” – a 1-Day Photonics Design Solution Opportunity : FIVE Individual Days were specified as being available for Potential LENS Design Opportunities – to suit Companies/Colleges; Qioptiq, Deeside College

Delivery by reservation – but available on demand

UPSKILL Implementation

• Technocamps Workshop Day for 16–19 year old Engineering Students – Coleg Llandrillo

• MAGNOX Nuclear Power Station Celebration Day for STEM Ambassadors, Wylfa, Anglesey

• ( Post-project ) Photonics Academy Summer School (PASS) 2012

Towards Sustainability : Levels 3 and 4

• Optics and Photonics Up-Skilling for Industry (OPUS) : Work-Based Learning

• Technicians in Optoelectronics• Foundation Degree in Photonics [with Llandrillo and Deeside Colleges]

Towards Sustainability – and beyond

• CAMPUS : Capability Matrix for Photonics Upskilling

• IMPETUS : Industrially Mediated Photonics Education Training and Up-Skilling

Towards Sustainability – EU

• EU Photonics21

• Photonics in Life and Medical Sciences (PHILMS) Marie-Curie ITN : SMEs + HEIs

Towards Sustainability – and beyond

• WOF Strategy : Innovation and Skills• WG Science Policy • WG Innovation Strategy • 2015 Year of Light

Academi Ffotoneg Cymru@ BangorPhotonics Academy of Wales@ Bangor (PAWB)

Cyfarwyddwr/Director: Ray Davies Cadeirydd/Chair: Yr Athro/Professor K Alan Shore

Bangor UniversitySchool of Electronic Engineering