TABLE OF CONTENTS Programs ACTIVE LEARNING IN PHYSICS A WAY FOR RATIONAL THINKING-A WAY FOR DEVELOPMENT Z. Ben Lakhdar, N. Derbel, Z Dhaouadi, H. Ghalila, R Miled, S Lahmar, K Berrada, R. Channa, A Outzourhit II. POST-GRADUATE PROGRAM IN OPTICS PHOToNICS E Fiarlie Il. ELECTRO-OPTICS-INTEGRATED WITHIN THE LAND FORCES TECHNICAL STAFF PROGRAM; ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE OF CANADA: 1994-PRESENT E Fjarlie PHOTONICS EDUCATION PROGRAM AT CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY Dennis Derickson, Sam Agbo, Sean Jobe, John Sharpe, Dan Wasche, and Xiaomin Jin Fundamentals I. CAN CLASSICAL OPTICAL SUPERPOSITION PRINCIPLE GET US OUT OF QUANTUM MYSTICISM OF NON-LOCALITY AND BRING BACK REALITY TO MODERN PHYSICS? Chandrasekhar Roychoudhuri II. THE FIRST STEPS FOR LEARNING OPTICS: IBN SAHL'S AL- HAYTHAM'S AND YOUNGS WORKS ON REFRACTION AS TYPICAL EXAMPLES Mourad zghal, Hamid-Eddine bouali, Zohra Ben Lakhdar, Habib hamam IL. ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM OF LIGHT IN OPTICS INSTRUCTION Enrique J. Galvez and Nikolay Zheley TV. UNDERSTANDING THE CHARACTERISTICS OF GAIN SATURATION FOR HOMOGENEOUSLY BROADENED LASER MEDIUM FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE BANDWIDTH Geguo Du LARGER ISSUES I. UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO INSTITUTE FOR OPTICAL SCIENCES COLLABORATIVE PROGRAM IN OPTICS Emanuel Istrate, Amr S. Helmy, John E. Sipe, M. Cynthia Goh, R.J. Dwayne Miller lI. BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES AT ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS AS RELATED TO THE EDUCATION TRAINING. AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEXT GENERATION OF SCIENTISTS AND PROFESSIONALS Kamran S. Mobarhan, Ph. D llL. ADVANCING TEACHING OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH PRE- COMMERCIAL PHOTONIC DEVICES Marko m. g. slusarczuk