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2012 NSF/MESA Summer Team Internship Symposium

Published June 25, 2013 by Eric Pamintuan

The National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to the San Diego MESA Alliance (SDMA) provided stipends for 36 student interns (12 students in MESA/MEP program at each campus – San Diego City College, San Diego State University, and Southwestern Community College) this summer at various projects in science and engineering firms.
This is a unique paid internship that incorporates a team component into the student internship experience. Hired student interns were placed in teams of 2-4 students to work on projects in engineering and science firms or for faculty. Summer internships occurred between May through August of 2012, at a minimum of 100 hours. In some cases, employers and/or faculty may extend internships or create other internship opportunities for students (beyond summer 2012).

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Electrocorticographic Brain Computer Interfaces: Building Cortical Control Columns

Published February 28, 2012 by Eric Pamintuan

Brain computer interface (BCI) technology has classically focused on two signal acquisition modalities for
control: multi, single-unit activity (MSU) and electroencephalography (EEG). While MSU activity
provides a high fidelity, multi-dimensional signal for BCI control, obtaining long-term stability of single unit recordings has proven difficult at best due to glial encapsulation issues.

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Active RF and mm-Wave MEMS Resonators Using Transistor Sensing

Published February 13, 2012 by Eric Pamintuan

Dr. Weinstein will discuss the Resonant Body Transistor (RBT), which can be integrated into a standard CMOS process for low power clock generation and high-Q tank circuits. We recently demonstrated the first hybrid RF MEMS-CMOS resonators in Si at the transistor level of IBM’s 32nm SOI CMOS process, without the need for any post-processing or packaging. The unreleased, Si bulk acoustic resonators are driven capacitively using the thin gate dielectric, and actively sensed using a body-contacted nFET incorporated into the resonant cavity. FET sensing with the high fT, high performance transistors in CMOS amplifies the mechanical signal before the presence of parasitics. The resulting RF-MEMS resonators provide low power, low cost, small footprint building blocks for on-chip signal generation and processing.

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Sensorimotor Neural Engineering seminar

Published January 26, 2012 by Eric Pamintuan

Seminar – Dr. Tom Daniels from the University of Washington and Executive Director of The ERC will be at SDSU on 1/26/12 from 1 -2pm in the SDSU Bio Science Center Gold Auditorium. – MESA/MEP/MSP students are strongly encouraged to attend.

Learn about state of the art research at University of Washington
Hear more about the ERC
If you are interested in the above, you should definitely attend this seminar

An ERC student meeting at SDSU on 1/27 from 9am to 10am at 6495 Alvarado Rd, Suite 225.

Students have the opportunity to learn more about the ERC
Students will meet and talk with lead faculty and staff of the ERC from SDSU and University of Washington
Student can learn more about Dr. Tom Daniels’ seminar.

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Paid research opportunities for Spring and Summer 2012

Published December 13, 2011 by Eric Pamintuan

SDSU is a partner with University of Washington and MIT for the new Engineering Research Center (ERC) in Sensori Motor Neural Engineering (CSNE).

We have a few opportunities for SDSU MEP/MSP students to gain paid research experience (spring and summer 12) and to share that experience with pre-college students (outreach).

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