The University of Michigan hosted 5 undergraduate students during the 2005 summer. They performed research projects in the departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Material Science and Engineering
Projects were very broad in nature and touched upon several technical areas:
- biomedical engineering (Fabrication and characterization of nanostructured conducting polymer films on the surfaces of microfabricated neural prosthetic biosensors, A microfluidic system for the assembly and culture of tumor spheroid);
- Nanofabrication (Characterization of nanoimprinting of HSQ material);
- Computation (Computational studies of quantum dot formation and morphological evolution);
- Material science (Electronic and thermoelectric properties of semiconductor nanostructures).
Students also participated in several other activities at the site level (in addition to the network wide webcast seminars and the REU convocation): lab tours and discussions about career plans at a local pharmaceutical company R&D lab (Pfizer), weekly technical meetings, final presentations of research accomplishments to all PIs and NNIN site senior staff, director and deputy director.
