Ema Condori-Teves

11/21/16

Engineering Day
Tesla Diffusion Imaging and Deep Brain Stimulation
In this mini lecture we had, the girl showed us how electrodes produce an image of brain activity.
She showed us the very small reading that can be produced, but how it is extremely accurate. To be
honest, this was my least favorite discussion of the day, because we had a lot of time left over to ask
questions, which is a good thing, only not much questions were asked.
Tissue Repair Complex Systems
They demonstrated the kind of ombre effect they need when creating a synthetic tissue by
allowing some of us to try to re-create it. They briefly explained why tissue engineering is so hard to
replicate and what they individually studied at the U of U in the biomedical engineering department. A lot
of students asked what they specifically did, and both mentions they did a lot of research.
Chemical Engineering Projects Labs
This part of the day was pretty cool because we basically just got a tour of all the equipment they
use to create different chemical engineered experiments. He explained to us how now, they are
specifically working on how to chemically grow algae and showed us his current experiment on that. He
also gave us these cool little plastics Us that he made from the laser printer for Science day. The guy
who gave us the tour, also apparently works with 3 of our AMES students as he mentioned to me.

Science Day
Extreme Makeover: Human Body Engineering
In this discussion, we had a metallurgical engineer talk to us about how they use metal to create
synthetic bones and joints that repair the broken ones. He talked to us about different metals they use and
why its important that they be deoxygenated because that messes with our body if it releases any kind of
remains and also our bodies will wear down the metal inside if not properly altered. He also talked to us
why bones wear done in general with age, and how most of us will inevitable get arthritis. He discussed to
us also how childrens bones are more flexible and allow healing, whereas when we get older, that is not
exactly an option.
Magical Magnets
In this lecture, the professor discussed the polarization of the earth, and how rocks have revealed
that the poles switched at some point in time long ago, and will switch again. The poles are constantly
moving but when it shifts along the equator, you will be receiving so much particles from space that will
mess with all our technology. He also discussed the reason why we see the aurora borealis, which I
understood to be because at the poles of the earth magnetic field is weak and the particles from space
produce different colors that we can see. He passed around a lot of different magnets, but to be honest I
dont remember as much about this presentations than the others I saw that day.
Demolicious Physics
This was the coolest session Ive been to from both days, the professor did a TON of cool physics
demonstrations, some which you have explained to us in class. For example he had a girl from the
audience lay on a bed of nails which could be done because of mass distribution. He rolled some alcohol
inside a soda bottle and lit it up with a match, and the soda bottle flew across the room extremely fast. He
also had a ping pong ball shoot clean through a soda can by putting the ping pong ball in one side of a
large tube and taping both sides and vacuuming the air out from the inside, when he poked a hole in the
tape near the ping pong ball, it sent it shooting straight through a soda can and denting another pretty bad,
completely destroying the ping pong ball as well. That could be done because the difference in pressure
that was created by vacuuming the air out of the tube, so when he allowed the air to come back in by
poking a small hole in the tape, it caused the ball to be thrusted forward at an extremely fast speed. He
also swung around a bucket of water on a small platform and the water didnt spill and this worked
because of what we learned in class about centripetal force. That was only a FEW of the demonstrations
he showed us, but it was the coolest discussion I went to during science day.