MSC Program Workshop Descriptions

A Gaming Toothbrush?! Innovative Design Thinking 1:15-2:45pm & 3:15-4:45pm LaSells Stewart Conference Center - Agriculture Leaders Room Ms. Shannon Cahill-Weisser, Mr. Pramod Poudel (Intel) Have you ever thought about how to get the most out of an everyday product you use? In today's golden age of technology, even a toothbrush can be innovated as a gaming experience to help kids brush more often! Come and learn how to view a previously unexplored problem in innovative ways and solve it with design thinking. We will brainstorm and generate cutting edge prototypes based on your ideas and finish with a design gallery. No programming necessary, but plenty of imagination is encouraged! Biography: Shannon and Pramod work at Intel in the Product Development Solutions organization developing centralized software tools to help engineers ensure their chip designs meet performance requirements. Shannon Cahill-Weisser has been an ASE intern, mentor, and presenter. Her internships in Dr. Skip Rochefort's polymer lab at OSU helped her discover her passion for analytical software. She completed her B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at OSU before joining Intel, where she has worked in PDS for five years on timing tool development and quality assurance. After work, Shannon likes to teach piano lessons and dance. Pramod is a senior software engineer at Intel and living in Hillsboro, Oregon. He has been with Intel for 8 years delivering software tools and flows to enable pre-silicon design analysis. Before coming to the USA in 2008 for his master's degree in electrical engineering, Pramod taught Microprocessors and Computer Architecture to undergraduate students for two years. Pramod is also involved in teaching Arduino and Scratch classes to primary, middle and high school students as his social commitment. In free time and good weather, Pramod likes to hike.

Dangerous Decibels: How Loud Is Too Loud? 1:15-2:45pm & 3:15-4:45pm LaSells Stewart Conference Center – Agriculture Science Room Dr. John Brigande (Oregon Hearing Research Center, OHSU), Ms. Alev Brigande (Oregon Hearing Center, OHSU and Reed College), Mrs. Cicek Brigande (Dangerous Decibels Educator) Noise-induced hearing loss is one of the only forms of hearing loss that is entirely preventable. Are you listening to your personal music player at a safe volume? How can you tell? When does it make sense to use hearing protection? Are earplugs enough? Join us for the Dangerous Decibels Hearing Loss and Tinnitus Prevention Workshop and learn the answers to these questions and many more through an action-packed series of hands-on experiments. In this workshop, we will review the anatomy and physiology of the inner ear to understand how hearing happens. We will then discuss the three things you can do to prevent noise-induced hearing loss. Finally, we will determine how long each day you can safely listen to your personal music player at your normal set volume. So bring your tunes and let’s celebrate the special sense of hearing! Biography: Dr. John Brigande is an Associate Professor of Otolaryngology in the Oregon Hearing Research Center at the Oregon Health & Science University. He studies the development of the mammalian inner ear using the mouse as a model system. His lab is focused on devising fetal therapies to restore auditory function in neonates that would otherwise be born deaf. Dr. Brigande began to lose is hearing during late childhood, is now severe to profoundly hearing impaired, and relies on hearing assistive technology to communicate orally. Alev Brigande is part of the Oregon Research Hearing Center at OHSU and is a student at Reed College. Cicek Brigande is a Dangerous Decibels Educator.

Electron Microscopy: Essential to Basic, Applied and Industrial Research 1:15-2:45pm Linus Pauling Science Center – Room 145 Dr. Peter Eschbach, Ms. Teresa Sawyer (Oregon State University), Dr. Barbara Miner (Intel (retired)) Electron microscopy is a powerful analytical technique that is used for basic, applied and industrial research. Structures that are too small to be imaged with even the best optical microscopy, can be imaged and elemental composition can be determined with high resolution. Examples in current studies are disease-causing viruses, oceanic plankton, failed electronic components, soil from deep-sea drilling sites, lunar minerals, and air pollution particles. At OSU’s Electron Microscopy Facility, you will have a chance for hands-on imaging of biological (e.g., pollen on a bee’s tongue or a compound insect eye) and industrial samples (compositional analysis of an actual electronic component) and practice image reconstruction that is used to understand the 3-dimensional topography on the nanoscopic scale. Biography: Dr. Peter Eschbach received a Ph.D. in Materials Science. His career includes studies of lasers and optics at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and failure analysis work at Hewlett Packard. Dr. Eschbach is Director of the OSU Electron Microscopy Facility. Dr. Barbara Miner has a Ph.D. in chemistry and spent 25 years as an electron microscopist at Intel, analyzing newly invented materials and films as small as 2 atoms wide. She is now the Girls Engage Technology Coordinator at Saturday Academy. Teresa Sawyer is an electron microscopist at Oregon State University specializing in biological sciences and has been a Senior Faculty Research Assistant at OSU since 1997.

Exploring the Seafloor 3:15-4:45pm Oregon State University Nypro Building – 4700 SW Campus Way Ms. Cara Fritz (Oregon State University) What can scientists learn from the ocean floor? This workshop at the OSU Marine Geology Repository will provide you with a close-up look at the science of ocean mud. You will tour the core lab facilities and learn how cores are collected off of research ships. Participants will examine a selection of cores taken from around the world's oceans and learn what these cores can tell us about geological events and ocean conditions of the past. You will also have a chance to get your hands dirty as you take and process representative "cores" and study the composition of the sediment under the microscope. Biography: Ms. Cara Fritz is a faculty research assistant in OSU's College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences. She has a B.A. in Biology from Amherst College and an M.S. in Oceanography from OSU. She has held a variety of jobs related to marine science, from teaching oceanography onboard sailing vessels to conducting research in estuarine benthic biology.

Facade Industries: Exploring How to Design the Building Envelope 3:15-4:45pm LaSells Stewart Conference Center - Agriculture Production Room Ms. Lin Wu (Walters & Wolf), Mr. Jeff Wang (Oregon State University), Ms. Nancy Wu (Lincoln High School) Did you know that buildings have skin too? In this workshop, participants will gain a better understanding of the building construction field, specifically cladding services. Cladding (in construction) is when material is applied to the outside of a building to provide insulation, weather resistance, and aesthetic benefits. Participants will also learn how new technology, specifically artificial intelligent and computer learning, can help streamline this process. Biography: Ms. Lin Wu is a Project Coordinator at Walters & Wolf, a West-Coast leader in premier cladding services. She holds a BS in Architectural Design from JinLing Polytechnic University in NanJing, China. Jeff is a senior at Oregon State University majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Material Science. Nancy Wu is a student at Lincoln High School and was an ASE intern in 2018.

Mental Time Travel: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory 1:15-2:45pm & 3:15-4:45pm LaSells Stewart Conference Center - Wells Fargo Room Dr. Caitlin Bowman, Ms. Stefania Ashby, Ms. Lea Frank (University of Oregon) The human brain is capable of learning and remembering a near infinite amount of information, but our memory still fails us sometimes. Why can you clearly remember events from your childhood but you can't seem to remember what you ate for dinner last Friday? Where in the brain are those memories stored and how do we access them? In this workshop, we will bust common brain myths, explore how memory can be deceptive, tour the memory structures of the brain, learn how to train your memory and test it against some of the best memorizers in the world! Biography: Dr.Caitlin Bowman is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oregon, working in the Brain and Memory Lab under the supervision of Dasa Zeithamova. She received her B.A. in psychology from New York University in 2009 and her Ph.D. in psychology from Penn State University in 2015. Stefania Ashby completed her M.S. at the University of Oregon and is currently working towards her Ph.D. Before coming to UO, she completed her B.S. in Psychology at BYU and spent three years conducting neuroimaging research at the UC Davis Imaging Research Center. Lea Frank completed her M.S. at the University of Oregon and is currently working towards her Ph.D. She completed her B.A. in Psychology at Marist College and spent two years conducting research on neurological injuries at the Kessler Foundation.

Opportunities in Civil Engineering 1:15-2:45 pm LaSells Stewart Conference Center - Agriculture Production Room Mr. Jason Kelly (OBEC Consulting Engineers) Through this workshop, participants will gain a better understanding of the many career opportunities in the field of civil engineering. Participants will break up into teams and tackle a case study and be tasked with determining potential engineering professional needs and possible solutions to the problem. Mr. Jason Kelly is professional engineer who has practiced for almost 16 years. He graduated from Oregon State University in 2003 with Civil and Forest Engineering Degrees. Mr. Kelly's area of focus is construction management and inspection of transportation (bridges and roads) and heavy civil infrastructure (pump stations, towers, etc.). He also performs in-service inspections of bridges and other civil works.

Pacemakers, Defibrillators, and Pig Hearts! 1:15-2:45pm & 3:15-4:45pm Agricultural and Life Sciences Building, Lab 0007 Ms. Sarani Chatterjee, Mr. Shane Gillett, Heather La Bore (BIOTRONIK, Inc) Every year, your heart beats 3.6 million times and creates enough energy to drive a truck across the U.S. twice. In this workshop, we will go through how pacemakers and defibrillators work: why someone would need one (bradycardia, tachycardia, heart failure) and how it would help. After a short presentation, we will break into groups of 3 students and perform a pig heart dissection. It can get messy (gloves and gowns will be provided). Be ready to prod, poke, and cut into a pig’s heart. Biography: Sarani Chatterjee graduated from Oregon State University with a Bachelors in Bioengineering. She's been with BIOTRONIK for 4 years and has assisted nurses, physicians and sales reps on technical details of BIOTRONIK devices, including device programming, training, and implantation technique. Shane Gillett has completed undergraduate degrees in Nursing at Oregon Health & Science University, and Aeronautics and Astronautics at the University of Washington. He worked as an ICU nurse for several years before his role as a Clinical Studies Engineer at BIOTRONIK." Prior to working in the health sciences, Shane spent several years developing software for satellite guidance systems. Heather La Bore, a graduate of Portland State University with a B.S. in Biology, and an M.Ed. in Secondary Education, has twelve years' experience at BIOTRONIK, has worked as a facilitator, instructional designer, and Marketing Product Manager. In these roles Heather has trained BIOTRONIK employees, as well as physician and nurse customers on the technical aspects of BIOTRONIK devices.

Pathways in Engineering 3:15-4:45pm Johnson Hall – Room 221 Dr. Skip Rochefort, Emma Lingle, Claire Niemet, Cindy Wong (Oregon State University) In this presentation, Dr. Rochefort will give students an overview on possible engineering majors and careers, and offer tools to help potential engineering majors decide which field(s) might be right for them. He will also complete the following activities with students: 1) Reverse Engineering a Disposable Diaper, 2) Gel Beads for the Design of an Artificial Pancreas, 3) Skippin' Dots: A new invention, 4) Segway: Why it's so cool, and why it doesn't sell. Biography: Dr. Skip Rochefort is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering in the School of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering (CBEE) and the Executive Director of OSU Precollege Programs. He has degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts (B.S. 1976) Northwestern University (M.S., 1978), and the University of California at San Diego (Ph.D., 1986) His research interest for the last 40 years has been in areas of polymer engineering and science, with a passion for K‐12 outreach for the recruitment and retention of women and minorities in engineering. Emma Lingle is a student at Oregon State University. Claire Niemet is a student at Oregon State University and was an ASE intern in 2016. Cindy Wong is a student at Oregon State University and was an ASE intern in 2017. The How, Where, and Why of Genetically Engineered Plants 1:15-2:45pm & 3:15-4:45pm Richardson Hall, Room 115 Dr. Steven Strauss (Oregon State University) Go ahead and play with your vegetables! In this workshop, Dr. Strauss will show you how genetically engineered crops can be created, what they look like, and (if you dare) what they feel like. He will also explain what kinds of genetically engineered plants are grown today, and where they are grown, and how many of them you might be eating. Dr. Strauss will use iClickers to engage students in a lively discussion on genetic engineering and why it is so controversial, both here in Oregon and in so much of the world. Biography: Dr. Steven Strauss is a Distinguished Professor at Oregon State University in the College of Forestry and the interdepartmental Molecular and Cellular Biology Program. He produces genetically engineered trees for research and fun, and cooperates with companies and -ologists of all kinds to study the trees' benefits and biological safety.

Using Mathematics to Make and Break Secret Codes 1:15-2:45pm & 3:15-4:45pm LaSells Stewart Conference Center – Weyerhauser Board Room Ms. Shirley Ma (Oracle) Mr. Connor Shu (Sunset High School) Mr. Marshal Xu (Lincoln High School) Mr. Justin Yang (Westview High School), Mr. Yongtian Zhang (Kaiser Permanente) As more of our personal information is stored online, the more important it becomes to step up security. Industries such as health care, finance, manufacturing and retail all hire cyber security professionals to protect valuable information from cyber breaches. Cyber security professionals work hard to ensure data stays out of the wrong hands, and cyber security education becomes more important. Everybody should have some knowledge of staying safe online. Students who attend this workshop will learn and practice one encryption and decryption method. Biography: Mrs. Shirley Ma is the Senior Manager of Linux Kernel Engineering at Oracle. She holds several US patents and contributes to both Linux Kernel and Userspace work. She holds an M.S. in Computer Science (Database & Operating Systems) from Oregon Health & Science University. She coached Jr. FLL, FLL, and FTC for more than 9 years. The team went to international competition. She works with Oregon Mathletics Youth Organization to encourage participation and camaraderie between youths in the field of math, entrepreneurship, computer science, and engineering (MSCSE). Connor is a student at Sunset High School and a former ASE intern. Marshal is a student at Lincoln High School and a former ASE intern. Justin is a student at Westview High School and a former ASE intern. Mr. Yongtian Zhang is a Senior Security Consultant at Kaiser Premanente.

Where's the eggs? Fertility Treatment in Humans and Livestock Species 1:15-2:45pm Oldfield Animal Teaching Facility – Laboratory Classroom Dr. Cecily Bishop, Wilson Simmons, Ms. Kathryn Younger (Oregon State University) How is infertility treated in people, and how similar are the reproductive processes are between humans and livestock species? You'll find out in this workshop. Participants will dissect the reproductive tract of a cow, and learn to identify embryos and sperm under a microscope. Participants will analyze bull sperm to determine how fertile the bull is, and learn how these same techniques are used in fertility clinics for men and women experiencing infertility. Biography: Dr. Cecily Bishop is an Assistant Professor in Animal & Rageland Sciences at the Oregon State University College of Agriculture. She holds a PhD in Animal Sciences from Oregon State University, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Oregon National Primate Research Center. Wilson Simmons is a graduate student at Oregon State University in the department of Animal Sciences. Ms. Kathryn Younger is an Instructor in the department of Animal & Rangeland Sciences at the Oregon State University College of Agriculture.