Assignments Spring 2009


All lectures are in portrait style (P) unless a landscape (L) version exists.
Assignments with a time are due by email (@) or in PRB2196 (#); those without a time are due in class.
You should expect to meet with one or both instructors outside of class weekly. The "Meet with instructor" column describes the expected agenda.

Mon Day Class Activity Assignment Due Meet with instructor

Mar 30 Course objectives
Writing & speaking is life P L
short topic
31 Topics P  L  & Sentence outline P L P2 L2 short topic 4pm @
Apr  1 Take Home Message (THM) Ditto
 2 Sentences P L Ditto
 3 Making talk effective (for business viewpoint see 10 Page Talks) short sentence outline with THM 8am @ Ditto

 6 Talk Stuff P L p short sentence outline
 7 Effective Slides revised short sentence outline 8am @ Ditto
 8 Setting the tone P L Ditto
 9 Short paper refereeing P L Ditto
10 Revision P L short draft 8am #; referee forms available in class Ditto

13 [no class] short referee reports 4pm # short draft & talk
14 [no class] medium topic 10am @ Ditto
15 Jacob Mayer "Physics says you can't ice skate"
Eric Suchyta "Nanonites aid developing new antibiotics"
Ditto
16 Zachary Rudd "Creatine: legal supplement to strength/endurance"
Maxwell Ream "Improving your `mileage' on a bicycle'
17 Samuel Shaw "Optical fiber carry all the info desired"
Shannon Friebel "Endless power in the wilderness"
Ditto

20 [no class] short paper 2pm # short talk, medium topic
21 Whitney Wyatt "Bridge under troubling walkers"
Philip Riegler "Safe major renovations in tight spaces
Ditto
22 Lloyd Corwin "Stained glass' durable colors caused by metal nanobeads"
Stephen Grossi "Nanotechology bright future in detoxing blood"
med-sentence
outline 8am @
23 Alexander Pauli "Physics of simple skaterboard tricks"
Rashad Simon "Mirror neurons aid our social skills"
Ditto
24 Chris Johnson "Solar wind tower as a major power source"
Stephen Poorman "Star's changing color reveals its planets"
Ditto

27 Justin McLaughlin "Optical storage (h)as a long-term format"
Brian Stallter "Possible future of commercial supersonic flight"
medium sentence outline
28 [no class] revised medium sentence outline 8am @ long topic
29 Developing the Policy Paper & long topic 10am @ Ditto
30 Report on Short Talks and Paper Ditto
May  1 Revising long topic P L TSO examples Ditto. Can also start long paper sentence outline

 4 [no class] medium draft 10am #; referee forms available 4pm long paper sentence outline
 5 Refereeing -- the practice P L Ditto
 6 Abstracts: revision examplesP medium referee reports 4pm # Ditto
 7 Referee reports available in class (Revision checklist P L) Ditto
 8 NO class -- unless popular demand long sentence outline 10am @ Ditto

11 No class unless need. long paper, medium talk
12 [No class] Ditto
13 ? No class unless need. medium paper 4pm # Ditto
14 ? No class unless need. Ditto
15 ? No class unless need. Ditto

18 Report on medium papers See Recurring topics long paper
19 Stephen Grossi " Fusion energy from the National Ignition Facility?" revised long sent.
outline 10am @
20 Chris Johnson "Ultrasound induces high-temperatue and pressure chemistry"
21 Jacob Mayer "Radio has a future in cosmic particle detection"
22 Stephen Poorman "Organics LEDs enhance more than just televisions"

25 [no class] -- Memorial Day
26 Philip Riegler "Digitized X-ray images yield better and
   more accurate diagnoses"
27 Samuel Shaw "High powered lasers are viable missle defense" long paper draft 10am #; referee forms available 3pm
28 Rashad Simon "Supernovae Ia provide excellent cosmic distance scale" Last graduating senior
29 Lloyd Corwin "Breeder reactors will extend nuclear fuel stock
    while eliminating need for Yucca Mtn storage"
long referee reports 9am #

Jun  1 Shannon Friebel "Charge your cell phone while walking"
 2 Justin McLaughlin "Cooling atoms with lasers:
   How light makes a better freezer"
 3 Alexander Pauli "How electric guitar pickup filters out electric noise"
 4 Brian Stallter "Comparing the photon-beam methods to kill
   cancer cells while sparing the patient"
long paper
 5 Whitney Wyatt "Detecting faux 15th century cartographer"

Jun  8 Start of exams
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 10
 11
Zachary Rudd "Telomeres: a biological death clock?"
Eric Suchyta "How have and how might lithium batteries
   better power electric cars"

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