by Terri | Mar 2, 2017 | Tech Blog Thursday
March 2, 2017 About 176 years ago in Geneva, Swiss physicist Jean-Daniel Colladon inadvertently demonstrated one of the core principles of fiber optics: total internal reflection (TIR). TIR is a phenomenon that helps us to purposely move and manipulate light, so that...
by Terri | May 5, 2016 | Tech Blog Thursday
May 5, 2016 Ayman Abouraddy, Ph.D., associate professor in The College of Optics and Photonics (CREOL) at UCF has helped create a new way to form micro- and nanoparticles. This new way of doing things can potentially be a game changer for a variety of industries where...
by Terri | Feb 10, 2016 | Startups Start Here Series
February 10, 2016 Darren Engle, an entrepreneur and a UCF alumnus, has launched two successful startups. The first, Acudyn, Inc., a research, design, and development corporation that specialized in the advancement of energy and automation technologies, was...
by Michael Carney | Sep 16, 2015 | Interview with Licensing Associates, Licensing Series
September 16, 2015 John Miner is an Assistant Director in the Office of Technology Transfer (OTT), where he has been working since 1999, starting as a student assistant. He received his BA in Organization Communications with a minor in Space Studies and his MS in...