Technical Program

Date Location Topic
Week 1
5/31
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
Tutorial on Scientific Presentations & Ethics in Science and Engineering Graduate School
Seminar 1
Week 2
6/07
Th: 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. SEO 200 Seminar 2
Project Description* (PartI): 5 Students-I
Week 3
6/13
Th: 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. SEO 200 Seminar 3
Project Description* (Part II): 5 Students-II
Week 4
6/20
Tu: 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. SEO 200 Seminar 4
Workshop on Technical Writing
Week 5
6/27
Th: 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. SEO 200 Seminar 5
Progress Report** 5 Students-I
Mid-term report ***
Week 6
7/04
Th: 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. SEO 200 Seminar 6
Progress Report** 5 Students-II
Week 7
7/11
Th: 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. SEO 200 Seminar 7 (Cancelled and replaced)
Progress Report*** 5 Students-I
Week 8
7/18
Th: 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. SEO 200 Seminar 8
Progress Report*** 5 Students-II
Week 9
7/25
Tu: 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Th: 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
SEO 200 Longer Progress Report**** 7 Students-I & IIA
Seminar 9
Longer Progress Report**** 3 Students-IIB
Week 10
8/02
Th:
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
ERF 1043 Final Symposium*****

Students – I: Jared Weddell, Megan Silas, Marissa Gaskill, Julie Kraus, Andrew Mandelbaum

Students – II: Kevin Meaux, Ghinwah Hachem (A); Tessa Cooper, Abigail Jablansky, Christine James (B)

*Project Description: 10 min (max) presentation of objectives, 2 page handout for all participants.

** Progress Report: 10 min (max) presentation of accomplishments and open challenges.

*** Mid-term written report due at the end of the sixth week of our program (July 8, 2011).

**** Longer Progress Report: 12 min (max) presentation followed by extensive feedback.

***** 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/)