Tuesday August 11

Today, in the morning I had the Imaging Science class again and we learned about printing. Then we went over for a tour of the printing facilities in the CIM department on campus. After that, we went to the color science building for a presentation on display systems (tv screens and the like). I sent my write up to Dr. Swartzlander to see what he thought of it, but otherwise I am working on my presentation and setting up a time to finalize my safety training so I can work with Peter and Chris in the SMFL in preparing to fabricate a rough draft of the vortex lens or at least something like it.

Monday August 10

Today, I finished the write up for Dr Swartzlander for tomorrow, and worked with Chris to get more data to hopefully start working in the lab. In the morning I stopped over and got more or less trained in the basics of the lab, and received the 70 question safety test to fill out and bring back to discuss. I also took a little time to stop over at the library to check out some books for my research paper due for the Imaging Science class and started my presentation for this internship.

Friday August 7

Today, I came in early and went to the poster presentations of the undergraduate students that performed research this summer. It was pretty interesting to see what people were doing outside of Imaging Science. throughout the day, I worked on more of the write up of the assignment Dr. Swartzlander gave me to do and starting my presentation. Also, in the afternoon, I finally set up a meeting with the operations manager of the SMFL (micro electronic engineering lab) to get trained for monday at 10:00.

Thursday August 6

Today, in the morning, I had the imaging science class, where we learned about motion pictures. The class wasn't too fun except at the end where we performed and experiment as a class using a high speed camera to determine the constant "g" or the acceleration due to gravity on earth. We filled up water balloons and dropped them from different, measured heights while filming them so that we could find the time it took them to hit the ground by using the amount of frames it took and how many frames per second the camera took. We got some really interesting videos of how water balloons break and extremely slow motion videos of them doing it. In the afternoon, I continued work on reporting our progress with the vortex lens, which is constantly being updated and never finished, because we are still working on the project itself. I also need to start working on my final presentation for the 21st because it is coming up pretty quickly. I finally have a time to get safety trained in the MicroE building, something I ahve been trying to do all summer, but haven't had the chance to do. I go at 10:00 on Monday.

Wednesday Aug. 5

Today was not a very fast paced day. I pretty much worked on writing up the experiment with the vortex lens throughout the day. I am just about ready to finish the write up and hopefully by then chris will have finished his analysis of the graphs the way Dr. Swartzlander wants. In the morning, Roger Easton came to the staff meeting to present about Document restoration and what he does in there. It sounded kind of like what we are doing in the current lab for the imaging science class which by the way I have again tomorrow. Also, there was a picnic for the undergraduates doing summer research in the science department today and us interns qualified to participate in it. So we pretty much got a free lunch. Thats about it for today.

Tuesday August 4

Today, I had the imaging science class in the morning, where we learned about cameras, and worked on another lab where we had to take different pictures and process them in different ways on the computer. Jake and I had to go outside 3 times to get the desired pictures because our camera kept switching to a wrong setting and turning the picture all white. In the afternoon, I continued work on the paper/report/procedure with help and explanations from Chris, who actually undestood at least a little of it. At the end of the day, we also went over to see if we could set up a time for me to get trained but the operations manager who has been away, was busy, so after waiting for a while, we decided to go back tomorrow. Hopefully I can be safety trained sometime soon so we can start doing more in the clean rooms.

Monday August 1st

Today, we toured the laser lab at the University of Rochester. It was a pretty cool tour but according to Joe and Bob, the tour skipped over the tie in to imaging science. We got to see all the rooms where the lasers, capacitators, and other laser parts were, and even got to see a test shot fired. We were kind of hoping to see the laser actually be fired at a target, but we still saw the flash on the tv monitor. When I got back to RIT, I started working on creating a paper that makes sense of all the math on our board, which is no easy task. I also have to finish up a lab and a report for the imaging science class tomorrow.