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Teacher Intern: Kim Doubleday
Faculty Supervisor: Kimberly Turner
Department: Mechanical Engineering |
2002 Research Project: MEMS – Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems.
I worked in Prof. Turner’s MEMS Characterization Lab with Rajashree Baskaran. The purpose of the research I was involved in was to characterize a MEMS device “C2”, built by Rajashree Baskaran. The device we are testing is designed to vibrate when voltage is applied. Our tests are to determine what the highest velocity of vibrations will be for selected voltages
What I learned from this project:
•Engineering is cool.
•Engineers solve problems for people.
•When you test something, you test all your variables millions of times against the control.
•Engineers write everything down in numbered log books.
Download research presentation as a PDF file
2003 Curriculum Project: Overview of Teaching Motion using MEMS
Accelerometers
I participated in a Research Experience for Teachers
(RET) program sponsored by UC Santa Barbara and funded
by the National Science Foundation. In the summer of
2002, I assisted Rajashree Baskaran (then a Mechanical
Engineering graduate student of Dr. Kimberly Turner)
test a MEMS device she designed. Next year I met with
the other teachers of the RET group and we created
lesson plans that would bring this research experience
into the classroom. During the school year of
2003-2004, I will try out the MEMS lessons on my 8th
grade students.
Download curriculum project
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