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.).