Outreach Programs
Cooperative International Science and Engineering Internships

Cooperative International Science and Engineering Internships(CISEI)
Summer 2008 - Student Projects

Student/School Mentor Faculty Sponsor Site Abroad Student Project
Ricardo Alamillo
Chemical Engineering, UCSB
Dr. Brian Peoples Dr. Raúl Quijada Departamento de Ingeniería Quimica y Biotecnología, Universidad de Chile, Santiago Chile Optimization of synthetic procedures of silice and copper based nanoparticles and the effect of particle size on the physical properties of nanocomposites
Nicholas Anderson
Chemistry, University of Washington
Ian Povey Professor Martyn Pemble Tyndall National Institute, Cork, Ireland Atomic Layer Deposition of a Conducting Metal on a Photonic Crystal
Arnaud Berube
Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Stefan Schulz Dr. Eoin O’Reilly Tyndall National Institute, Cork, Ireland Influence of Polarization Fields on Opitcal Recombination Rates in GaN-based Quantum Dots
Antoin Douglawi
Biochemistry, Allan Hancock College
Manuel Natali Silvia Giordani Trinity College Dublin, Ireland New Materials for Fluorescent Sensing and Imaging
Jennifer Drewes
UCSB, Chemistry
Dr. Adriele Prina-Mello and Dr. Aine Whelan Prof. J. M.Coey and Dr. Yurii Gun'ko Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland Functionalization of Metallic Nanowires
Diana Gottschalk
Chemistry, James Madison University
Prof. Dongyuan Zhao Prof. Dongyuan Zhao Fudan University, Shanghai, China Design and Synthesis of Zr Supported Mesoporous Catalysts
Madeleine Grossman
Chemistry, UCSB
Maarten Smulders  Prof. E. W. Meijer Technical University Eindhoven, Eindhoven, Netherlands Synthesis and Characterization of Chain Stoppers for Supramolecular Polymers
Garret Kruger
Chemical Engineering, UCSB
Prof. Dongyuan Zhao  Prof. Dongyuan Zhao Dept of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Fudan University, Shanghai, China FDU-15 Graphitization using a chromium catalyst
Alison Morrison
Chemistry, Santa Barbara City College
Prof. Karin Jacobs Prof. Karin Jacobs Experimental Physics, Saarland University, Saarbruecken Germany Characterization of Nanomaterials: Scanning force microscopy of functionalized surfaces with chemically modified tips
Amanuel Negash
Mechanical Engineering, UCSB
  Dr. Peter Rogin Leibniz-Institut für Neue Materialien, Saarbruecken, Germany Cracking mechanisms in sol-gel silica thin films
Shaun Orr
Chemical Engineering, UCSB
Hui Peng Prof. Andrew Whittaker Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, University of Queensland, Australia Synthesis of Fluorine Containing Polymers for MRI Imaging Agents
Florencia Rusli
Chemical Engineering, UCSB
Nicole Grobert Prof. Andrew Watt Oxford University, Oxford, England Alternatives to ITO as a transparent conductor
James Stankowicz
Physics, University of Florida
Martin Castell Martin Castell Oxford University, Oxford, England Barium oxide thin films as precursors to barium titanate thin films
Kyle Stewart
Electrical Engineering, UCSB
Jaime Muñoz Luis Vargas University of Chile, Santiago Construction of a dc-dc boost converter for an electric car dynamometer
Peter Zalar
Chemistry, University of California Santa Barbara
Martin Wolffs Prof. E. W. Meijer Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands Self-assembly of multicomponent porphyrin based systems

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