GEARs Workshops

Generalist Electromechanics for Applied Researchers Workshops

Schedule

Day 1

Schedule

Time Presenter Description
0800 - 0830 Team Welcome, Outline of Course, Introductions, Safety
0830 - 1000 John Leeman Introduction to Electronics and Schematics
1000-1100 Capt. Jeff Grass and SSFD B Shift Live Fire Extinguisher and Safety Training
1100-1200 John Leeman Operational Amplifiers
1200 - 1300 Lunch - Pizza
1300 - 1400 Lab Activity 1
1400 - 1500 Lab Activity 2
1500 - 1600 Lab Activity 3
1600 - 1700 Lab Activity 4

Dinner on your own, but mixer at Ivory Bill Brewing 6:30-onward. Rides will be arranged.

Labs

  • Soldering Through Hole and Surface Mount - Building Blinky!
  • Operational Amplifiers and Impedance
  • Instrumentation Amplifiers and Transducers
  • Tapping into Communications with Probes and Logic Analyzers

Day 2

Schedule

Time Presenter Description
0800 - 0900 John Leeman DAQ Systems and Filtering
0900 - 0930 John Leeman Transducers
0930 - 1000 John Leeman Calibration Basics
1000 - 1100 John Leeman Control Systems
1100 - 1200 John Leeman Fluid Power
1200 - 1300 Lunch - Sandwiches
1300 - 1400 Lab 1
1400 - 1500 Lab 2
1500 - 1600 Lab 3
1600 - 1700 Lab 4

Labs

  • PID Controllers and Tuning
  • ADCs, Filters, and Aliasing
  • Calibration of Transducers
  • Working with Pneumatic Actuators

Day 3

Schedule

Time Presenter Description
0800 - 1000 John Blackman Introduction to 3D CAD and 3D Printing
1000 - 1100 John Leeman Design and Machining Techniques
1100 - 1130 John Leeman Field Considerations
1130 - 1200 Steve Swavely Working with Piezo Transducers
1200 - 1300 Lunch - Mexican
1300 - 1400 Shop Tours Leeman Geophysical and Nance Machine
1400 - 1700 John Leeman Arduino and Interfacing (Lab/Lecture Mix)

Day 4

Schedule

Time Presenter Description
0800 - 0830 Leeman/Ulaga Intro, Safety, and Sheet Metal Work
0830 - 0930 Lab 1
0930 - 1030 Lab 2
1030 - 1130 Lab 3
1130 - 1230 Lab 4
1230 - 1330 Lunch - Chinese
1330 - 1700 John Leeman LabView Programming (Lab/Lecture Mix)

Labs

  • Machining - Lathe
  • Machining - Mill
  • Welding
  • Threads, bolts, rivets, fasteners

Day 5

Schedule

Time Presenter Description
0800 - 0830 Questions/Summary/Misc.
0830 - 0930 John Leeman How to Troubleshoot
0930 - 1000 Eric Bruning Field Measurements for Lightning Physics and Meteorology
1000 - 1030 Shannon Dulin How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Magnetometer
1030 - 1100 Sridhar Anandakrishnan Challenges in Polar In-Situ Observations
1100 - 1130 Scott DeWolff Using Fiber Optic Technology
1200 - 1300 Lunch - Zaxby's Chicken
1300 - 1330 Alison Nugent Creation of a Sea-Salt Sampler with Arduino and 3D Printing
1330 - 1400 Kiya Riverman
1400 John Leeman Exit Survey
1400 - End Group Hack Time/Projects/Elective Content