Post Tagged with: "internships"

By Miles Lindquist (B.S. Astrophysics, Class of 2017) The main goal of my 2015 internship in Physics & Astronomy was to optimize the process of photolithography. I worked with Dr. Eric Stinaff, who had been developing the process with students. With his help, I managed to find a process that developed […]

By Benjamin Hirt (B.S. Physics, Class of 2018) My research in Dr. Arthur Smith’s lab in Physics & Astronomy was about finding out if substances would stretch when put under a permanent magnetic field. To achieve a high magnetic field, we arranged the magnets in a Halbach array to maximize the […]

By Cates Harman (B.S. Physics, Class of 2016) During the summer of 2015, I had the opportunity to intern in Physics & Astronomy with Dr. Justin Frantz, who specializes in nuclear physics, specifically the study of quantum chromodynamics. Among other things, Dr. Frantz is working on measurements of high-energy helium […]

By Erin Grimes (B.S. Physics and Applied Mathematics, Class of 2016) During the summer 2015, I continued my internship with Dr. David Ingram in Physics & Astronomy building an ion beam optics model using Comsol multiphysics software. The model is of a particular beam line in Edward’s Accelerator Lab, and the […]

By Miguel Gomez (B.S. Physics and B.S. Computer Science, Class of 2016) I had the opportunity to work as an intern with Dr. Ryan Chornock in Physics & Astronomy during summer 2015. My research focused on spectral reduction on standard stars and supernovae in order to determine their evolutionary life cycle. One […]

By Justin Courtright (Physics and Applied Mathematics, Class of 2016) My research with Dr. Eric Stinaff in Physics & Astronomy investigated how to produce an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) with an Arduino microcontroller and quartz tuning fork. Ideally, the AFM should be able to resolve objects down to 1 nanometer (one […]

By Michael Jaramillo ’17 B.S. Astrophysics I had the opportunity to work under the direction of Dr. Douglas Clowe. His research is on determining the dark matter distribution in galaxy clusters through weak gravitational lensing. One of my main jobs as his intern was to make sure the images of […]