First task for the day was the weekly RISE lab meeting.  Today we discussed the Keithley instrumentation the lab has and the specs for those instruments (namely the K236 and K617).  Also we delved into planning out how to setup the instrumentation for the tests using the GPIB capabilities.  This discussion also included the controls, constants, and variables we will encounter in trying to determine the current (which is the core of what we're trying to measure). 

That meeting took up until lunch time and then the 4 RISE girls along with Pamela and Jean-Marie went to eat at a nice little restaurant on campus called Adele's.  We sat and ate a nice lunch and discussed careers, etc. within the engineering world.  This lunch discussion was prompted mainly because one of the girls in the my RISE lab group isn't sure that electrical engineering is what she wants to be getting into as a career. 

After lunch, one minor adjustment had to be made to the potbox.  So that was fixed up and today I took a picture of the wiring as of now (before the chip being tested is mounted inside the potbox).  Black wires are ground and red wires are 'hot' voltages.

We also tested out the final oscilloscope (we couldn't do that yesterday because it was being used).

Finally we started working on making the triax cables we'd need.  Amy and I actually stayed later than Lindsay and Maria in order to finish the two cables we were going to need to set up our testing instrumentation.  Here's a picture of Amy and Maria working on the first cable.

Anyway, that's about all for today... it was a fairly uneventful day, but hey, I'm not going to complain.  :)