Online Certificate in Optical Instrument Design: An increasing amount of today’s consumer, industrial, and business products incorporate optomechanical systems. These are essential to virtually every industry, including defence, medical, clean energy, nanotechnology, automotive, electronics, communications, entertainment, computers, and consumer products.

The specialization course falls upon the different areas of Optics, with potential interest to different types of companies. It aims to promote the interaction between the university and industry, through training, completing the education offer of the University of Aveiro, with special focus on the areas related with Engineering physics, biomedical, mechanics, chemistry, and electronics, in topics such as optoelectronics, applied optics, materials science, sensors, communications, among others.

An increasing amount of today’s consumer, industrial and business products incorporate optomechanical systems. These are essential to virtually every industry including defense, medical, clean energy, nanotechnology, automotive, electronics, communications, entertainment, computers, and consumer products.

The Opticianry program teaches students how to fabricate prescription lenses from semi-finished lens blanks inserted into fashionable eyewear worn by the patient. Adjusting and fitting eyewear and frame selection and dispensing are also part of the curriculum. The Opticianry program provides learning opportunities that introduce, develop, and reinforce academic and occupational knowledge, skills, and attitudes required for job acquisition, retention, and advancement.