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• Update task list every Wednesday by midnight.

Allie

• meet with Jerry - start exp

• part for makerbot
• get spooler setup, MOST RecycleBot Spooler]] - list BOM, instructions
• get new energy values for processing HDPE,
• paper draft,
• process a bunch of HDPE, measure time it takes to do things, talk to Megan
• and make a bunch of filament
• work on printing

• start project/lit page -- start filling this in as you go Recyclebot - take pictures etc.
• make table in project page with polymers and melting point ranges
• Finish Life cycle analysis of polymer recycling literature review and Waste plastic extruder: literature review
• Thermocouple measurements protocol: MOST

Ben

• start Effects of electric fields on amorphous silicon literature review -- use the following to guide you: [1]
• move box furnace -- next to the hood - table
• print probes

Brad

• Help build system
• Fill in MBE_protocol:MOST

Brennan

• D80 prez
• Dial in laser speed and current
• modulate laser power and time for line and spot welds
• New motors for axis - higher torque Permanently install
• Motor driver chips - solder piggyback or use higher current chips
• Extensometer setup on testing machine
• Confirm tensile test parameters with printed samples

Chenlong

• paper draft
• print reactionware
• ALD lit search Atomic layer deposition literature review
• finish Open-source photoluminescence system
  • spectrometer Open source spectrometer:MOST

• MBE_protocol:MOST
• finish InGaN lit review InGaN material characterization literature review
• reprap chemistry

Joseph

• MBE_protocol:MOST
• finish InGaN lit review - focus on devices --InGaN photovoltaics literature review
• write up Hall Effect protocol:MOST, post spreadsheet Dr. Moran

• open source charge controller
• set up biweekly meeting slc

Jephias

• get report from Megan -- finish - put in your stuff and stack write TS report - ellipsometery
• finish metamaterials, perfect absorber lit review
  • review article
• learn ellipsometry- check complete protocol page
  • learn how to change stages -- document!
• Plasmonics for solar cell

Mac

• step 1 recreate grass and snow paper
• Familiarize with SBDART and how it is used in code
• Look into fix graph scaling
• Figure out why the spectrum intensity does not match the paper
• generate spectrum for different locations/seasons
• Look at weather data for cloud data. (Idea being that some locations might have more cloudy days effecting the yearly spectrum)
• Generate spectrum for various cloud formations
• Get material library
• look at database, figure out data formating
• Figure out how to import/graph
• pick materials from database
• Find better water albedo data
• Figure out how to format data for use in code
• refine material picks
• Go over theory, match calculations in code to variables and equations
• experimental design
• Research Outline/Summary
• calibrate reptile light

Megan

MRS

• RecycleBot Paper
  • Done
  • Need to create poster
    • Printing
• RepRap Paper
  • Done
  • Need to create presentation
• Resume

XRD

• XRD_(X-ray_Diffraction)_protocol:_MOST
  • Need to add picts to page.

RepRap

• Literature review - RepRap Mechanical Testing Literature Review add standards
• write Tensile test protocol: MOST
• Put build documentation on project page - Mechanical testing of polymer components made with the RepRap 3-D printer

• Do mech testing -- prints for base tests

Thesis forms/etc

• Committee
  • Pearce, Shonnard, Hackney

• Thesis
  • Silane (Finished)
  • MRS - Print vs. conventional Paper (Short finished, long needs work)
  • MRS - Rural recycling paper (Short finished, long needs work)
  • Tensile test of 3D prints
  • Forms [2]

• Dates:
  • Before Nov 9th 5PM - MRS Registration $135 [3]
  • Oct 29-Nov 15 - MRS Manuscript Submission
  • Nov 19th - Submit poster for printing
  • Nov 16-26 - Thanksgiving Break (Essentially Campus Deadzone)
  • 2 wks before Defense (Approx. Nov 23rd)- Pre-Defense Form (Day, Time, Place for Defense) [4]
  • 2 wks before Defense (Approx. Nov 23rd)- Submit Draft to Graduate School/Committee [5]
  • Nov 24-29 - MRS Trip
  • Dec 7th - Defend by (not strict?)
  • Dec 15th - Graduation
  • Dec 10th - Within one week before submitting Final Thesis [6]
  • Dec 17th - Final Thesis by 4PM
  • Dec 17th - Before 4PM (Immediately after defense) Report on Final Oral Examination [7]
  • Dec 21st - Complete Final Degree Requirements by 4PM & Degree Completion Form?[8]

• Open source LCALife cycle analysis tools

Ravi

• forestry data logger
• Forrest service PV system design-- appropedia summary page so others can copy - BOM, wiring, how to access data etc.
• Photovoltaic charging of ultracapacitors literature review - complete lit review
• Photovoltaic charging of ultracapacitors - project page
• Ultracapacitors: MOST - methods page, include spec sheets, safety, etc. for using ours.

Publications

• paper 1 - Photovoltaic charging of ultracapacitors
• paper 2 - Open source power electronics for a solar powered internet
  • Solar powered internet methods,
  • Solar powered Internet literature review
  • Generalizable Design guide for small-scale solar photovoltaic applications
• paper 3

Rodrigo

• meet with Brennan - questions on modulate laser power and time for line and spot welds
• os optics edits
• Open-source environmental chamber
  • BOM
  • lit review

Dr. Pearce

(W= waiting on reply) (add to bottom of list before waiting/triggers)

• figure out about thesis publishing

Deadlines

• nov 8 toilet
• nov 15 mrs proceedings
• nov 25 mrs talk
• dec osat chap
• feb 4 http://www.ieee-pvsc.org/PVSC39/pages/technical_program-call_for_papers.php
• feb 7 uofT visit
• feb 19 wfl nsf http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=501027

grants

• http://www.trb.org/IDEAProgram/IDEAProgram.aspx
• http://www.mtu.edu/research/administration/vpr-office/internal-awards/c2e2/

To do

• rewrite PL/ellip
• PVT dispatch
• outline open science

• finish/submit lca distribute recycling - w
• pv off grid - w
• pv annuity - w
• exergy -w
• fuel cell - W
• trigger Queens PV
• Salt 2 - w
• nano redo?
• Enterprise - W

Pending Projects

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_oxygen_demand

open design

• Build MakerScanner http://wiki.makerbot.com/makerscanner-building - fix light holder
• Set up Duel Boot on Netbook
• Learn Open Scad http://www.openscad.org/
• elaborate on Literature Search - feed Development_and_feasibility_of_applications_for_the_RepRap_3-D_printer
• purchase foam board and make measurement lines
• put together protocol for makerscanner to open source cad package --
• work on openscad designs

spectral pv

• Literature Search (Read Literature from Rob's work)
• Effects of spectral albedo on photovoltaic devices
• write SBDART protocol: MOST also see if we need to use this [9]
• translate code, verify
• run simulations

Open source hardware projects

• for publishing http://www.tandfonline.com/action/aboutThisJournal?show=abstractingIndexing&journalCode=list20
• finish filter wheel (work with Rodrigo)
• environmental chamber
• pin/nip flip
• electrode
• TiO2 test cell
• dremel fuge2
• dremel spincoater