Triton SPIE Chapter, End of the Year Report Wed, Apr

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1 1) Officers Triton SPIE Chapter, End of the Year Report Wed, Apr spie.ucsd.edu President Michael Gordon # Outreach Director Stephen Olivas # Vice President* Michael Chang # Treasurer* Jose Aparicio # Faculty Advisor** Prof. George Papen *Joined mid-term, not elected in Sp. '08 election **Appointed position 2) Chapter Members Jose Aparicio Ashkan Arianpour Michael Benchimol Russell Burdt Michael Chang Zhi-Qiang Chen Marco Antonio Escobar Acevedo Eric Flynn Michael Gordon Yi Huang David Klein Swee Lim Brett Nadler Stephen Olivas Marc Robinson Bing Shao Pavel Shekhtmeyster Frank Tsai Eduardo Velazquez Joshua Windmiller 3) Past Activities (Apr Mar. 2009) Photos from most of these events are available here: Photo Gallery Spring '08 Tour of Shiley Eye Center, Retinal Imaging Laboratory Date/Time: Thursday, April 10 th, 2008, 2:00PM 3:30PM Location: Shiley Eye Center, Retinal Imaging Laboratory, UC San Diego Imaging of cornea, vitreous, and retinal tissues. Demonstration of optical coherence tomography, scanning laser ophthalmoscope, retinal angiogram, adaptive optical imaging systems and related devices. Explanation of common ocular impairments. Triton SPIE Annual Elections Date/Time: Thursday, May 1 st, 2008, 7:00PM 8:30PM Location: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC San Diego Annual election of chapter officers; transfer of materials from incumbents to newly-elected officers; training of new officers. Transfer Admit Day Tabling Date/Time: Sat May 10, :30a - 1:30pm Location: Library Walk, UCSD Hosted a tabling demo, featuring large area (>1sq-m) fresnel lens to concentrate sunlight. Used as a means to recruit new interested members.

2 Outreach - Holography Workshop, High Tech High Date/Time: Thu Apr 3, a- 1p Attendance: About 60 high school students High School students made 2.5x2.5" holograms of their own object on glass slides to keep. Saw an assortment of other optics demos and theory. Open Holography Workshop Date/Time: Thu Apr 3, 1p-4:30p Attendance: 40 UCSD Students Immediately following the high school outreach event, we kept the workshop open for several hours for additional UCSD students to come make their own holograms, as well. Triton SPIE Recognition Banquet Date/Time: Wednesday, June 11 th, 2008, 5:00PM 7:30PM Location: Jake s Restaurant, Del Mar, CA Annual recognition banquet honoring the dedication and achievements of chapter officers during the past year. Disbursement of chapter awards and recognition of outstanding members. Triton SPIE End-of-the-Year Event Date/Time: Friday, June 13 th, 2008, 11:00AM 1:00PM Location: Engineering Bear Courtyard, UC San Diego Demonstration of thermal power of focused sunlight near summer solstice using customfabricated 2m Fresnel lens with ultra-fine annular period; incineration of various materials and objects; use of said Fresnel lens for barbequing of hot-dogs, hamburgers. Summer '08 SPIE Optics and Photonics Date/Time: Location: San Diego Convention Center '07-'08 chapter officers, and some prospective members for '08/'09 attended the Student Chapter Leadership Conference, and Technical Conference. Our local chapter also hosted a table w/ poster board, and demos of holograms (some made during previous workshops) as well as assorted table-top optics demos involving low-power lasers, and high-power LED devices made by Triton Chapter Members. Fall '08 Holography Workshop -- Session One Date/Time: Fri, 9/23/08, 10a-5p Location: Student Optics Lab, EBU1, UCSD Attendance: 90 Highly publicized w/ flyers across campus. Visitors came any time within 8hr window, for about 30 minutes at a time. Intended as a means of recruiting new interested members, and gain publicity for the chapter. Each visitor got to come in, and make 3d recordings of their own personal objects on 2.5x2.5" glass slides Holography Workshop -- Session Two Date/Time: Fri, 10/13/08, 11a-6p Attendance: 110 Same description as above. Some repeat visitors. Fall GBM, Tech Talk: "Origami Lens" Date/Time: Fri 10/17/08, 2-3p Attendance: Ph.D Student Eric Tremblay presented his work on the "Origami Lens", a long-focal-distance camera literally "folded" into an extremely compact package. Pizza/Refreshments were provided

3 Frontiers in Optics, OSA Student Chapter Leadership Conference Date/Time: Sat 10/18-Tue 10/21 Location: Rochester, NY Stephen Olivas won the travel grant to attend the OSA student chapter meeting. He gave a poster demonstration on behalf of the chapter, and showed off our latest results from the Fall Holography Workshops. Dinner with the Deans, Powerpoint Presentation Date/Time: Thu 11/20/08, 5-6:30p Location: CSE Building, UCSD Descrption: Hosted by Triton Engineering Student Council (TESC) Our officers were invited to attend a dinner with Engineering Deans and Professors at UCSD, where we gave a powerpoint demonstration about our local chapter, and discussed collaborative chapter activity, and outreach events with both professors, and other Engineering Student Organizations in attendance. Winter '09 Outreach - Girls Day Out, Tabling Date/Time: Jan 10, 10:30-1:30 Location: Price Center Ballroom, UC San Diego Attendance: 40 girls, accompanied by parents Outreach event hosted by Spawar Systems Center, in San Diego to promote Engineering to Middle- and High-School girls. Hosted a table where we gave assorted optics demos, including many previously-made holograms. We also give advice and answered questions regarding how to college, and specifically engineering school, as well as how the theory behind our various demos relates to jobs in the real world. 1st Winter GBM - High Power LEDs Lecture/Demo Date/Time: Fri 1/16/09, 11a-4pm Attendance: 20 Descrption: Our current chapter President, Michael Gordon, gave a powerpoint demonstration on the lastest high power LEDs, including both physics of how the devices work, human color-vision perception, and engineering applicatoins for high power LED. Also included as part of the talk was a demo of several state of the art high power LEDs. Free pizza, drinks. Winter Holography Workshop -- Session One Date/Time: Fri, 1/24/09, Location: Student Optics Lab, UCSD Attendance: 60 Visitors recorded 3d images of their own objects to keep. This time utilized (for the first time) Green Argon laser, and larger 4x5" film sandwiched between glass as recording medium. 50 in attendance. Also recorded some larger 8"x10" holograms on film for the group to keep, and use in future demos etc. UCSD ECE Dept. Photonics Depth Sequence Workshop, Table Demo Date/Time: Wed 2/11/09, 1pm-2pm Event hosted by the UCSD Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. At UCSD, Photonics is one of several depth sequences necessary for graduation. Our chapter hosted a table showcasing some of our groups past activies, in order to recruit prospective members interested in optics, and demonstrate some interesting practical applications of the optics curricula at UCSD. 2nd Winter GBM - Solar Concentrators Lecture Date/Time: Thu 2/12/09 1pm-2pm Attendance: 25 Jason Karp (Ph.D Candiate, working w/ Prof. Joseph Ford) give a powerpoint talk on the state of the art in solar photovoltaics, as well as sevreal novel solar concentrators used to improve the efficiency of solar energy systems. Pizza/Drinks were provided for all.

4 Winter Holography Workshop -- Session Two Date/Time: Fri Feb 13, 2009 Location: Student Optics Lab, UCSD Attendance: 65 Utilized red HeNe laser with red sensitive 4x5" film. Enspire Outreach Workshop (Photo Gallery) Date/Time: 10:30-12:30p, Wed 2/18/08 (also, preparation Sun 2/15, 2-7pm) Location: Student Optics Lab, UCSD Attendance: 125 Eighth graders, accompanied by 16 others Part of Enspire Outreach event, hosted by Triton Engineering Student Council, where 8th grade students from Pershing Middle School, and Gompers Charter Middle school visit UCSD to learn about engineering. Our workshop was a stop on a circuit of lab tours. We explained what hologram are, and how they are useful (eg security, sensors, art). Theoretical concepts were explained at an age-appropriate level using analogies, and visual aids such as a crude "hand made" scratch holograms. The guests observed many of our previouslymade holograms, alongside the objects they were based on. Finally, the students went into the darkroom where we exposed and developed holographic film live. Afterward every attending student received their own 3d hologram to keep (and show off to their friends/family/etc...). 3rd Winter GBM - "Optical Modualtors for Optical Communcaion", Prof Paul Yu Date/Time: Fri 3/6/09, 2-3p Attendance: 20 Professor Paul Yu gave an overview of some of the various different methods of Optical Modulation, as well as some of his own original research in fabrication of nanowires for use in optical modulators for optical fiber communication. Also discussed briefly some of the engineering challenges, and expected future job opportunities in optical communcation. OFC/NFOEC Attendance Location: San Diego Convention Center Date/Time: 3/22-3/26/09 Optical Fiber Conference. Attended short courses, and visited Exhibition floor. 4) Planned Activities Spring '09 Outreach - Girls Day Out, Tabling Expected Location: Price Center Ballroom, UC San Diego Expected Date/Time: Sat. Apr 18, 10:30a-1:30p Expected Attendance: girls, accompanied by parents Outreach event hosted by Spawar Systems Center, San Diego to promote Engineering to Middleand High-School girls. Will host a table where we gave assorted optics demos, including many previously-made holograms. We also give advice and answered questions regarding how to college, and specifically engineering school, as well as how the theory behind our various demos relates to jobs in the real world. Make Solar Cells Workshop Expected Location: Student Optics Lab Expected Date/Time: Fri 4/24/09, 10a-3p Visitors will make dye-sensitized solar cells, using ITO Conductive glass, fine powderized Titanium Dioxide powder, and various organic electrolytes. As one steps of the process requires overnight soaking, we will bring out almost-finished samples from the night before, so that the visitors may be able to complete a working solar cell within the same day. Finally, we expect to power some LEDs/pinwheels, other small devices out in the sun.

5 Outreach - Engineering Explorations Expected Location: Student Optics Lab Expected Date/Time: Sat 5/2/09 Local High School Students will visit UCSD, to learn information about how to apply for Engineering School. We will likely either record some holograms, or make solar cells (depending on success of Solar cell workshop) Transfer Admit Day - Tabling and Panel Discussion Expected Location: Warren Mall/Engineering Courtyard, UCSD Expected Date: Sat 5/16/09 Plan to host a table to attract new members for next year, and/or particpate in a panel discussion where we offer advice to incoming engineering transfer students on how to succeed in school, as well as how to get involved in extracurricular activitiy (namely, our chapter) Spring GBM - Luxtera Rep. (a Local Photonics Company) Expected Expected Date: TBA (Late April) Speaker from a local Photonics Company, Luxtera, will talk about their product (integrated optoelectronics), as well as offer advice to engineers about to graduate about transitioning from academia, into the workforce. Movie Night/ End of the Year Rooftop Barbecue Expected Location: 3rd-floor balcony of EBU1 (part of ECE grad student lounge), UCSD Expected Date: TBA, June 2009 Description:We plan to project a movie against the wall of on a 3rd-floor balcoy Summer '09 Advanced Holography Workshop Series - Image-Plane Holograms (Possibly beginning early Spring, extending into summer) Most of our workshops up to this point were "one-step" processes, which involve exposing and developing a hologram within a few minutes. So far, this has mostly been run cdone byhapter officers as more or less a "Demo" aimed at attracting new recruits, and developing exposure. This workshop will be on an RSVP basis (rather than walk-in), and in this case the attendees themselves will actually participate in every step of the process (the setup/aligning, exposing, and developing). For this first series, rather than making hundreds of mediocre holograms, the goal will be to create a smaller number of larger, higher-quality "Image-Plane" holograms (where the object appears to be half behind, and half in front of the glass). This requires recording a master copy (as a tranmission hologram), then later, building a different setup to generate copies. SPIE Optics and Photonics Attendance As in previous years, several officers and membres will attend the Student Chapter Leadership conference, Tehnical Conference, and Expo. This year we expect to invest more in improving our tabletop setup for the Expo. poster demos, as well as some semi-permanent tabletop optics demos (eg transmission hologram viewer, freespace optics link using laser/photodiode) on small breadboards.

6 5) Summary of Income, Major Expenses Starting Balance (April 1, 2008): $ Income: OSA Student Chapter Startup Fund $500 April '08 Triton Engineering Student Council $1595 Sept '08 SPIE Activity Grant $900 Feb '09 TESC Outreach Matching Funds $285 Mar '09 SUBTOTAL $3280 Travel Grants: SPIE Officer Travel Grant $1000 July '08 OSA Frontiers in Optics Travel Grant $1000 Oct '08 Expenditures: 2008 End of Year Banquet $210 June '08 Business Cards, Banner for Conference: $144 July '08 Glossy paper, color ink for Flyers: $54 Sept '08 Holographic Film/Developer/Framing: $2165 (Sep 08, Oct. 08, Jan 09, Feb '09) Food/Drink for Events: $310 (Oct '08, Jan '09, Feb '09, Mar '09) Purchased Optics (mirrors, lenses, etc) $190 Mar '09 Event Parking: $77 (various) TOTAL: $3150 Ending Balance (April 1, 2009): $ Future Income (Apr 1 - Aug 31) OSA Activity Grant up to $1000 OSA Outreach Grant up to $1000 UCSD Associated Students $500 SPIE Officer Travel Grant (O&P) $1000 OSA Officer Trvael Grant (FIO) $1000 Future Expenditures (Apr 1 - Aug 31) Advanced Holography Workshop Series $1000 Improved posters for conferences $150 Optics demos on breadboard for tabling $150

Student Chapter Annual Report 2015

Student Chapter Annual Report 2015 Officers Position Name Member # Email President Sarah Krug 3648027 skrug@alumni.nd.edu Vice President James Zimnicki? zimnickij1@udayton.edu Treasurer David Lombardo