PHGN471/472 GENERAL INFORMATION

Coordinator:
Matt Young, Rm. MH 445
Phone: 303-273-3862; fax: -3919; e-mail: mmyoung@mines.edu
Office hours: F, 10-10.50, 1-4; T, 1-1.40 is a good bet, as are noon, T, Th, F.  Normally off campus M, W.

Hours: Lectures and class presentations are scheduled every Tuesday between 8 and 10:50 am in MH363.  Most classes begin at 9.  Schedule laboratory work in coordination with your project (research) adviser.

Content: Practice on the design and use of apparatus and/or computer software for physical measurements and/or computational analyses and/or materials processing. A two-semester design project based on local research capabilities through direct involvement in ongoing research projects.

Goals:
Ability to design, build, and use systems which perform complex physical process or measurements, or computations.
Practice in systems design in which several variables and factors must be considered and measured, controlled, or processed.
Exposure to a research environment in which you have an opportunity to make a creative contribution on a professional level.
Communicating ideas and results to fellow students and researchers by means of written and oral presentations.

Prerequisites: PH384 (Summer Field Session) and senior standing.

Text: None

Format: 2 credit hours of lab work each semester under research adviser (6 hours per week of work in the lab). 1 credit hour of class work each semester. Much of this class time will be used to monitor progress through discussions and oral presentations.
 

Requirements and Grading

  1. Attend class meetings and participate in class discussions, turn in satisfactory written material when due.
  2. Work independently (but perhaps as part of a team) for a minimum of 6 hours per week on your project and make good progress each semester.
  3. Keep neat, orderly, up-to-date notebook that can be passed on to successor.
  4. Prepare clear, grammatical, organized, professional reports.  Physics must be correct, clearly described.  Graphics must be professional.  Units, numbers must be used correctly (SI symbols, significant digits, for example).  References must be cited correctly and in consistent format.
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Last Modified: August 1, 2001
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