Most of today was spent in the 'RISE Group' weekly meeting.  Pamela gave us a little lecture on diodes and transistors, as a sort of background to the work we'll be doing on testing the chips we have there to test.  We also went over the Team Contract, which I've included in this entry.  We talked about lots of other stuff at the meeting but it was mostly just stuff to give us a good place to start from on our work (that we're planning to actually start tomorrow). 

We took a pretty long lunch break today and ate out in the sun at the picnic tables there outside AV Williams (our building).  We talked about all sorts of things... it was quite entertaining.  I think I got too much sun though because when I got back to my apartment today, my shoulders were bright red.  So we'll see how red they get tomorrow. 

Anyway, that's about all I have to say today so I'll leave you with our team contract.

1. Objectives:
   1. Personal Objectives

                                                              i.      Lindsay: develop confidence in skills and knowledge

                                                             ii.      Maria: familiarize self with lab equipment and procedures

                                                            iii.      Amy: become more proficient in programming

                                                           iv.      Stefie: to be able to understand the concepts behind what is being done over the course of this program this summer.

2. Technical Objectives

                                                               i.      Set up measurement stations for optical and electric properties

1.      make test fixtures

2.      develop software interface to control experiments and collect data, and use these to set variables, etc.

3.      test chips (4)

4.      have an individual project

a.       i.e. an individual idea and effort

5.      set up data acquisition and GPIB

6.      testing manually and using the Data Acquisition/GPIB setup

2. Roles and Responsibilities:
   1. Talk to anyone in the lab (as a sort of resource)
   2. Individual:

                                                               i.      Lindsay: Team Contact

                                                             ii.      Maria: Director

                                                            iii.      Amy: Scheduler

                                                           iv.      Stefie: Secretary

3. Learning Outcomes:
   1. Active devices – microelectronics
   2. Simple circuits

                                                               i.      e.g. current mirrors and photo diodes

3. measurement

                                                               i.      how to make manually and automated (using data acquisition and GPIB control)

4. frequency, noise, and spectral measurements
5. information and power in physical circuits
4. Meeting Times:
   1. Tuesdays @ 4 pm in the Lab (Rm. 2160 AV Williams)
   2. Thursdays @ 10 am
5. Ground Rules:
   1. Be on time
   2. Be respectful
   3. Set goals each week at the RISE meeting for the following week and make an obvious effort to meet these previously set goals
   4. If you need to ask a question, ask
   5. Even if you don’t have a question, ask
   6. Be creative
   7. Become and stay friends after the program