Dan found that he was involved with a great deal of computer and control work and thinks his experience has been very interesting, unique and beneficial to his future work as an engineer. James Wang is a Computer Science major who enjoys seeing the data stream down from these satellites into his software. He finds it interesting to decode the NASA data stream. Jon Bannon Jon is working on an ion gun which will inject ions into Endohedral Fullerenes. A Fullerene is a unique configuration of carbon which has recently stimulated a great deal of interest in solid state physics and material science.
Fullerenes are very stable and can be used to hold an ion.
In Jon's research he wants to implant an ion into a Fullerene. Mark Osgood Mark is a senior in the Physics department. In his desire to see many sides of active physics he has worked in solid state and on a satellite project. Last year Mark received a grant from the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program to build a scanning tunneling microscope. This microscope is used in our solid state laboratories to image Folleianear , a new configuration of carbon.