PHGN 384 APPARATUS DESIGN
	Summer Field Session - Introduction to the design of engineering physics apparatus. Concentrated individual participation in the design of machined and fabricated system components, vacuum systems, optics, electronics and computer interfacing systems. Supplementary lectures on safety and laboratory techniques (syllabus and information).   Physics Summer Field Session Dates:            May 12 - June 20, 2008 Time:              9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, 5PM T-Th  Location:           Lectures and Meetings          MH 220, CTLM223                            Machine shop                                     MH 174                            Optics                                                MH 263                            Instrumentation and Electronics           MH 364                           Vacuum/Thin Films       MH 275, MH 270, MH 425                           Computing for Engineering Physics       MH 247 Instructors:         Tim Ohno tohno@mines.edu                              Alex Flournoy  aflourno@mines.edu                              Uwe Greife ugreife@mines.edu                              Chuck Stone cstone@mines.edu                              Orlen Wolf owolf@mines.edu                              Fred Sarazin fsarazin@mines.edu                              Alex Yuffa ayuffa@mines.edu                              Larry Peterson lpeterso@mines.edu                              Brian Zadler bzadler@mines.edu Textbook:         Building Scientific Apparatus, (Optional)         J.H. Moore, C.C. Davis, and M.A. Coplan,                             (Addison Wesley 1989)  Evaluation: Machine fabrication 22% Vacuum/Thin Films 22% Electronics, Instrumentation, and Optics 22% Software for Engineering Physics 22% Assignments and Notebook 12% The evaluation is divided equally between the four (or three for students in PHGN384B) blocks, with each block co-ordinator assigning a letter grade. Criteria include attendance, participation, quality of work, and proper use of the scientific notebook.