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Biological Signal Analysis (Closed for the Summer 2010 session)
Instructor: Eric Basham
Find out how a biological signal transducer changes one form of energy to another. Students will build an amplifier to record neural signals in a crayfish eye stimulated by a flash of light. Basic skills of soldering, assembling an amplifier, collecting and analyzing data are featured.
BioTech
Instructor: Mallika Keralapura
This multidisciplinary course will have students build an electromyograph circuit to measure muscle contractility. In Bioimaging, they will use Ultrasound Doppler to measure flow in 1D and 2D. They will also capture substances within microcapsules, measuring and modeling out of the capsule with time.
Digital Electronics
Instructor, TBA
Students will analyze the basic components of a computer, and the relationship between hardware and software within a computer. They will then design and build some of the logic and arithmetic hardware building blocks such as logic gates, clocks, majority indicator, memory, and counters.
Fuel Cell Technology
Instructor, Greg Young
This laboratory course revolves around the hydrogen fuel cell. Students build, test, and use cells to power a model car. This is space program technology converted to simple alternative-energy application here on Earth.
Green Energy
Instructor, Mike Jennings, Roger Hoyt
Beginning with the "carbon footprints" of different energy sources, students learn the efficient use of energy. Then they design systems for the most efficient use of these energy sources. Students are challenged to find examples of companies having either Green initiatives, or which are based on the development of Green technologies.
Mars Exploration (Closed for the Summer 2010 session)
Instructor, Felicita Saiez
While NASA develops a Mars exploration program, charting a course for the next two decades, students learn about the Mars environment, mineral and other potential resources, human requirements to live and work in space, and to provide for life support and fuel to return to earth.
Robotics, Signal Analysis, RFID (Radio Frequency Identification Devices)
Instructor, John Schmidt/Jim Freeman
Students study robot structures and electronic controls, then design and build an intelligent robot including the digital hardware, software and structure. In Signal Analysis, students learn to recognize sounds based on frequency components and use MATLAB to automatically recognize those sounds. The RFID ( Radio Frequency Identification Devices) module introduces a technology with ubiquitous applications and has the student design their own RFID application.
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