Technical Program

Date Location Topic
Week 1
5/28 		Tu (5/26/09):
8.30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

Th (5/28/09):
3.00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. 		SEO 200


SEO 200 		Social Orientation, Lab Assignments (keys, locations, general rules and guidelines, etc.)
Tutorial 1: Lab Safety & Waste Management; Oral Presentation, Technical Writing
Week 2
6/4 		Th (6/4/09):
3.00 p.m. - 4.00 p.m.
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. 		SEO 200 Project Description* (Part I): Students-I
Tutorial 2: Bio-MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems)
Week 3
6/11 		Th (6/11/09):
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. 		SEO 200 Project Description* (Part I): Students-II
Tutorial 3: Microfluidics on Compliant Substrates
Week 4
6/16
6/18 		Tu (6/16/09)

Th (6/18/09):
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. 		SEO 200 Progress Report** Students-I
Tutorial 4: Nanotechnology
Week 5
6/25 		Tu (6/25/09):
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. 		SEO 200 Progress Report Students-II
Tutorial 5: Ethics in Engineering and Science
Tutorial 6: Materials for Hydrogen Storage
Week 6
6/30 		Th (6/30/09):
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. 		SEO 200 Progress Report Students-I
Tutorial 7:What is scientific research?
Mid-term report due***
Week 7
7/2 		Th (7/2/09):
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. 		SEO 200
SEO 200 		Progress Report Students-II
Tutorial 8: Combustion Technology
Week 8
7/9 		Th (7/17/09):
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. 		SEO 200 Progress Report Students-I
Tutorial 9 The elegant power of advanced electron microscopy
Week 9
7/16 		Th (7/24/09):
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. 		SEO 200 Progress Report Students-II
Tutorial 10 Electrospinning
Week 10
7/23 		Th (7/23/09): SEO 200 Tutorial 11 Infrared photodetectors
Week 11
7/28
7/30 		Th (7/31/09):
8:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. 		SEO 200
ERF 1047 		Regulation of Cell Polarity
Colloquium - Final Presentations of the 2009 UIC REU-NSF Program

Students – I: Naweed Paya, Emily Meyer, Peter Gu, Carlos Lopez, Danielle Meyers, Shirley Tan

Students – II: James Lyon, Paul Chando, Katherine Kragh, Elizabeth LeMaster, Madeline Midgett, Matthew Huberty, Stacey Skaalure

*Project Description: 7-9 min (max) presentation of objectives, 2 page handout for all participants

**Progress Report: 8-10 min (max) presentation of accomplishments and open challenges, 2-page handout for all participants

***Mid-term written report due at the end of the sixth week of our program (July 6, 2009).

****Final Symposium:

Oral Presentation to REU members, industrial participants, and other colleagues and students

Final written report including documentation of all work, research results and measurements.

All REU Site projects/final written reports must lead to manuscripts submitted to the Journal of Undergraduate Research (http://physicsweb.phy.uic.edu/~jur/)