at California State University, Chico
Student Educational Opportunities
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Above: Students from Dr. Mayor's "Lidar" PHYS 499 meet with students from Dr. Petrova-Mayor's "Lasers" PHYS 499 on May 14, 2009 for their final class. The "lidar students" described to the "laser students" the lidar's principles of operation.
The Raman-shifted Eye-safe Aerosol Lidar (REAL) at Chico State
is the prototype REAL and the only one where students can get hands-on experience with this state-of-the-art and increasingly useful technology. A wide variety of opportunities currently exist at Chico State for undergraduate and graduate students interested in learning about atmospheric lidar, the REAL, and applications of it in the atmospheric sciences, air quality, and national security. Students at all levels of education and from all majors are welcome to participate.
Students may enroll in PHYS 499 in order to receive credit for academic study related to the lidar.
Projects may involve:
- Operation and maintainance of the lidar system
- Using the lidar to monitor atmospheric boundary layer depth
- Using the lidar to track aerosol plumes
- Solid modeling of the lidar system using SolidWorks
- Ray tracing of lidar transmitter and receiver using ZEMAX
- Maintenance of high-energy lasers, optics, and opto-mechanics
- Optimization of photodetectors and related electronics
- Programming to monitor and control the system using Labview
- Algorithm and software development to process data using IDL (Interactive Data Language)
- Data & results dissemination via webpage design and maintenance
- Data processing, image analysis
The following two pages list potential Capstone Projects for Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering.
Please contact Dr. Shane Mayor for more information.
