面向职业卫生硕士学位的加速途径是为计划从事工业卫生从业人员职业并且在工业卫生或健康与安全领域有经验的学生而设计的。该学位课程的学生在课程的前三个季度完成了大部分必修课程。然后，他们在夏季季度完成了一次基于实践的实习，收集并分析了数据，这些数据将构成其项目/项目组合最终经验的基础。在第五个也是最后一个季度，他们完成，展示和捍卫他们的项目/作品集。在准备和介绍他们的项目/作品集的同时，许多学生选择在最后一个季度全职工作。
The Applied Physics degree program is excellent preparation for those planning to continue their education through the Ph.D., either in physics or an engineering field, or for a career as an instructor in a two-year college. Students electing the Thesis Option will be well qualified for employment in industry or in a research laboratory.<br><br>Students have opportunities for research in Biophysics, Computational Physics, Medical Physics, and Optics. The major research emphasis in the department is in the area of applied optics. The Department of Physics and Optical Science is the administrative coordinator of M.S. and Ph.D. programs in Optical Science and Engineering. These degree programs are interdisciplinary involving five science and engineering departments (Physics & Optical Science, Chemistry, Mathematics & Statistics, Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering & Engineering Science), the Center for Optoelectronics & Optical Communications, and the Center for Precision Metrology. A second area of emphasis is in biophysics, where there is a strong interdisciplinary relationship with the Ph.D. programs in Chemistry and Nanoscale Science, Biology, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, and Applied Mathematics. The M.S. in Applied Physics program emphasizes basic and applied interdisciplinary education and research in many diverse areas that include: Statistical and computational physics, Biological molecular motors, Protein folding, stability, and dynamics, Structural-based drug discovery<br>Nuclear molecular resonance spectroscopy, Micro-optics and nanophotonics, Fiber and integrated optics, Optoelectronic materials and devices<br>Biomedical optics, Optical interferometry and metrology, Optical fabrication, Nanoscale imaging and spectroscopy, Adaptive optics