Technical Program

Date Location Topic
Week 1
6/01
Tu:
9:00 a.m.

Th:
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
ERF 1043


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
6/07
Tu:
4:00 p.m.

Th:
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
SEO 200


SEO 200
Ethics in Science and Engineering Graduate School
Tutorial 2: Bio-MEMS(Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems)
Project Description (Part I): 5 Students-I
Week 3
6/14
Th:
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
SEO 200 Tutorial 3: Professional and Ethical Responsibility
Project Description (Part II): 6 Students-II
Week 4
6/21
Th:
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
SEO 200 Tutorial 4: Microfluidics on Compliant Substrates
Project Report (Part I): 5 Students-I
Week 5
6/28
Th:
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
SEO 200 Tutorial 5: Optimization in Engineering
Workshop on Technical Writing
Week 6
7/05
Th:
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
SEO 200 Tutorial 6: The elegant power of advanced electron microscopy
Project Report (Part II): 6 Students-II
Week 7
7/12
Th:
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
SEO 200 Tutorial 7: Infrared photodetectors
Project Report (Part I): 5 Students-I
Week 8
7/19
Th:
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
SEO 200 Tutorial 8: Electrospinning
Project Report (Part II): 6 Students-II
Week 9
7/26
Th:
9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
ERF 1047 Colloquium - Final Presentations of the 2009 UIC REU-NSF Program
Week 10
8/02
Th:
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
SEO 200 Tutorial 9: Biochemistry and Biotechnology
Evaluation

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 9, 2010).

****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/)