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Position for ECE Undergraduate Researcher in ChBE Surface Science Laboratory
DESCRIPTION OF WORK
Controls system design and construction for electrical systems used in high vacuum surface science studies. Jobs include the development of proportional-integral-derivative control schemes and required signal conditioning for analog and digital equipment. Student should have working knowledge of elementary circuit theory and be able to construct circuit components such as dierential ampliers. The work is an application of circuit and controls concepts for the monitoring and control of experiments in high vacuum. Analog equipment includes programmable power supplies, spectroscopic analog control boxes, and controllers for specialized vacuum equipment such as mass ow valves, turbomolecular pumps, thermocouple pressure gauges, and Bayerd-Alpert ion gauges. The initial problems are tractable for a student with working understanding of elementary circuit theory, for example, amplication of a voltage drop across a shunt resistor for measuring current. There exist several opportunities for more advanced work, the development of a PID control scheme being the most desired.
The position is available for academic credit. At minimum, must be the equivalent of 1 semester
at 2 credits (120 hours). Student will be provided with an office space and all relevant equipment for the project.
REQUIREMENTS:
PHYS 212, Electricity and Magnetism
ECE 342, Electronic Circuits
DESIRED KNOWLEDGE/EXPERIENCE:
--Working knowledge of elementary programming such as conditionals and loops, such as found in the CS 101, Introduction to Computing: Engineering and Science
--Familiarity with the Python language and its science libraries SciPy and NumPy
--All circuits subdiscipline courses for the ECE major (see https://ece.illinois.edu/academics/
ugrad/subdisciplines/circuits.asp)
--All controls subdiscipline courses for the ECE major (see https://ece.illinois.edu/academics/
ugrad/subdisciplines/consys.asp)
CONTACT: If you are interested, please contact David Ollodart at davidbo2@illinois.edu, or call during work hours at 217-244-5375.
