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Student Chapter Report
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Tecnológico de Monterrey
SPIE Student Chapter Report Fall 2008
On Campus – Activities
A. MATLAB Workshop We organized a MATLAB introductory workshop, which was intended to provide basic knowledge on how to manipulate the software to solve scientific problems. A total of 21 participants attended the workshop, and came from different backgrounds, mainly physics and biotechnology. The workshop had duration of 3 hours, and was open to all the student community at no cost. The instructor was José Hipólito García (Polo), one of our chapter members.
B. Introduction to Latex Another activity organized by our chapter was a Latex workshop, also taught by Polo. The idea was to help the students get equipped with the basic tools to present a more professional scientific report. The duration of the activity was three hours, with a total of 12 participants. This activity was open to all public, but we only had participants from the student chapter. Although we were expecting more attendants, we consider it was a success due to the fact that most of the
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participants are now making extensive use of Latex to present their project reports.
C. Introduction to MOEMS One of the major activities was the organization of a workshop for providing an introduction to MOEMS design. The workshop was given by our chapter member and PhD student, Sergio Camacho. This activity took place at the MEMS Laboratory here at Tecnológico de Monterrey, and the participants were given a manual prepared by Sergio. During the activity the students learned the basics of MOEMS, and how to use COVENTOR software to design basic devices. The main contribution of this activity for the chapter and our student community was the promotion of the MEMS research group, and the fact that it opened up opportunities for our undergraduate members to become involved in research projects, at an early stage in their programs.
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D. Recruiting new members
Another permanent activity is recruiting new members. To this end, we set up a booth during a whole week, usually the first week of the semester. We give information about the benefits of becoming SPIE members, and give away posters and other promotional materials. Promotion of the chapter was also supported by faculty from the physics department and optics center, who allowed us to visit their classrooms for a few minutes to invite more people to join.
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Off Campus Outreach activites The most important outreach activities we do outside Tec are two hands‐on activities for the dissemination of science, aiming at improving the awareness of our local community about the importance of science and technology in general, and more specifically about the relevance of optics.
A. Terrific Telescopes This activity took place in José Vasconcelos school, located in Guadalupe, NL. We had a total of 38 K‐10 students divided into two groups. The materials for the workshop consisted on the “Hands‐on Optics Kit” that were generously provided by SPIE, OSA, and NOAO.
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B. Liquid Crystals The objective is to introduce K12 students to the topic of Liquid Crystals by implementing the "mood patch" activity, using the materials kindly provided by Prof. Stephen Jacobs, from the University of Rochester. This is a permanent activity we do every semester, with great results. During the period Fall 2007 – Spring ‐2008 we visited three different schools performing the activity with almost 110 students.
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Elected Student Chapter Officers
PRESIDENT Name: Hipolito Garcia‐Gracia E‐mail: [email protected] SPIE ID#: 3154761
VICEPRESIDENTName: Dorilian Lopez E‐mail: [email protected] SPIE ID#: 3067739
TREASURER Name: Hector Sosa E‐mail: [email protected] SPIE ID#: 3174873
SECRETARYName: Adrian Ruelas E‐mail: [email protected] SPIE ID#: 3242682
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Chapter Members Jaime Aguilar Oscar Lopez Garcia Adrian Alvarez Galindo Ivan Matsumoto Palomares Jose Bravo Jose Mendoza Sergio Camacho‐Leon Daniel Molina Romero Gilberto Casillas Moises Pacheco Eduardo Coello Uribe Carlos Perez Daniel Cordova Ana Laura Puente Reyna Miren Esparza Echevarria Jorge Rosas Jesus Felix Servin Jose Manuel Rosas Escobar Hipolito Garcia‐Gracia Adrian Ruelas Librado Garza Gutierrez Claudia Saenz Ivan Gomez‐Castellanos Alejandra Salgado Jose Francisco Herbert Acero Victor Serdio Jorge Hernandez Hector Sosa Raul Hernandez‐Aranda Javier Tapia Mejia Alberto Hinojosa Alvarado Hector Valdovinos Chung‐Hsuan Ho Juan Velarde‐Magaña Dorilian Lopez Myrthala Wong Tamez
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Planned Activities for 2008 – 2009
C. Member Recruitment Week (Early February, 2009) During the first week of February 2009, we will mount a Member Recruitment stand at a specific location in Tecnológico de Monterrey in order to increase the member roaster of our SPIE Student Chapter.
D. Outreach Activities (Fall 2008 through Fall 2009) Several outreach activities will be carried out through Fall 2008 to Fall 2009. Some of the planned outreach activities are listed below.
a. LaTeX Workshops: The LaTeX workshop is designed to give a brief introduction to writing scientific documents with LaTeX. Tentatively, we will impart two workshops, one in Fall 2008, and the other one in Spring 2009.
b. MATLAB Workshops: We plan to give 3 MATLAB workshops throughout the year. The first one will be an introductory course to MATLAB for students who have never used it. The second workshop is destined to intermediate users who have some experience with MATLAB. The last workshop will cover how to generate high quality graphics with MATLAB.
c. Liquid Crystals Workhops: Several workshops involving “mood patches” using liquid crystals will be carried out in primary and secondary schools in Monterrey. Students will be introduced to the optical concepts behind color changes in liquid crystals.
d. EDUKIT: In addition to the LC workshops, we plan to introduce secondary and pre‐college students to diffraction and refraction phenomena using the EDUKITs distributed for free by SPIE.
e. Workshops for Kids during the XVIII International Book Fair: During the XVIII International Book Fair we will give some optics workshops for kids, which will include both the LC and the EDUKIT activities.
E. Visiting Lecturer Program (November 2008, March 2009) We plan to hold two lectures by members of the Visiting Lecturer Program. The first one will be given by Prof. Ivan I. Smalyukh, on November 21st, 2008, which will be titled “Controlling matter by focused beams: laser tweezers and laser shapers”. We intend to invite Prof. Virendra N. Mahajan to give the lecture “Gaussian Apodization and Beam Propagation” in March 2009.
F. IV Scientific Photography Contest (Spring 2009) As in previous years, in Spring 2009 we will carry out the IV Scientific Photography Contest in both categories: digital photography and printed photography. Prices will be given by some of our previous sponsors.
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G. Optics Open House (before Fall 2009) We will organize an Optics Open House which will take place sometime before Fall 2009 where we will present some of the current research done by members of our Student Chapter.
H. Bi‐weekly Seminars (Fall 2008 through Fall 2009) Optics and Physics seminars will be imparted every two weeks in collaboration with the Optics Center from Tecnológico de Monterrey. These seminars will be free of cost, and open to all public.