Tuskegee University - University of Cincinnati Bridge Scholar Program

Summer 2004 UC Schedule

Week 1: June 21 - 26

Time

Activity

UC Staff & Hosts

Monday, June 21

 

 

 

Meet Bridge Scholars at Soddy Dasiy, TN for tour of Sequoyah NPS Training Center

Drive to Oak Ridge , TN

Maldonado, UC

Mary Bach, TVA

Tuesday, June 22

Morning

Tour of ORNL facility

Maldonado, UC

Afternoon/Evening

Drive to UC. Check in Turner Hall

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, June 23

7:50 am

Meet in Turner Hall Lounge

Christenson, Popescu

7:50 – 8:45 AM

Breakfast at Market Pointe

Popescu

8:45 – 9:30 AM

Get ID Cards at Edwards III

Popescu

9:30 – 10:30 AM

Break & Campus Tour

Christenson, Popescu

10:30 – 11:30 AM

Welcome Session 503 Old Chem

UC Staff

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

Lunch at Market Pointe

 

1:15 – 2:00 PM

COE Computer System orientation

860 B Baldwin

David Webb

2:15 – 3:30 PM

History overview and Review:  Nuclear structure, Binding Energy, a, b-, g, IC, EC, b+ 503 Old Chem

Su

Thursday, June 24

9:30 – 11:15 AM

 

Review Radioactivity Decay:  half-life, specific activity, 503 OC

 

Su

11:15 – 1:15PM

Break & Lunch

 

1:15 – 4:00 PM

Intro to Radiation Detection

Usman

Friday, June 25

9:30 – 11:15 AM

Neutrons: reactions and interactions,

 503 OC

Su

11:15 – 1:15 PM

Break & Lunch

 

1:15-2:15 PM

Intro to Radiation Detection II, 503 OC

Usman

2:15 – 4:15 PM

Lab Tour & Radiation Safety

501 – 503 OC

Spitz

Saturday, June 26

10:30AM-12:30 PM

Free Time

Brunch Available, Market Pointe

 

 

4:30-6:30 PM

Dinner Available, Market Pointe

 

Sunday, June 27

10:30AM-12:30 PM

Free Time

Brunch Available, Market Pointe

 

4:30-6:30 PM

Dinner Available, Market Pointe

 

   

Week 2: June 27 – July 2

Time

Activity

UC Staff & Hosts

Monday, June 28

 

 

9:30  – 11:15 AM

Intro in Nuclear Power Systems

Rutz/Maldonado

11:15 AM – 1:15 PM

Break & Lunch

 

1:15 – 2:15 PM

Library Orientation, 850D Baldwin

Dorothy Byers

2:30 - 4:15 PM

Physical Principles of Nuclear Reactors

Usman

Tuesday, June 29

9:30 – 11:15 AM

Interactions of charged particles: a & b- particle range, energy transfer, ionization, bremsstrahlung

Snyder

11:15 AM – 1:15 PM

Break & Lunch

 

1:15 – 3:30 PM

Lab #1  503 Old Chem

Radioactive Contamination Survey

Spitz, Syahrir

Wednesday, June 30

9:30 – 11:15 AM

 

Attenuation and Photon interactions:  photoelectric effect, scattering,

pair-production

Snyder

11:15 AM – 1:15 PM

Break & Lunch

 

1:30 – 4:30 PM

Intro to Reactor Theory & Engineering

Usman

Thursday, July 1

9:30 AM – 11:15 AM

 

BWR Power Plant Systems

Rutz

11:15 AM – 1:15 PM

Break & Lunch

Rutz

1:30 – 4:00 PM

Laboratory Experiments, 503 Old Chem

Spitz, Syahrir, Snyder

Friday, July 2

9:30 – 11:15 AM

External radiation: biological effects

Snyder

11:15 AM – 1:15 PM

Break & Lunch

 

1:30 – 2:30 PM

Quiz

Snyder

2:30 – 4:30 PM

Free time. Individual Study. Make-up Lab. Experiments

 

Saturday, July 3

10:30AM-12:30 PM

Free Time

Brunch Available, Market Pointe

 

 

4:30-6:30 PM

Dinner Available, Market Pointe

 

Sunday, July 4

10:30AM-12:30 PM

Free Time

Brunch Available, Market Pointe

 

4:30-6:30 PM

Dinner Available, Market Pointe

 

   

Week 3: July 3 – July 9

Time

Activity

UC Staff

Monday, July 5

Holiday

 

Tuesday, July 6

9:30 – 10:45 AM

 

 

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Break, Lunch, Pack for the trip

 

1:00 PM

Depart for Chicago

Christenson, Popescu

6:00 PM

Estimated Arrival Time in Chicago

 

6:00 – 6:30 PM

ANL Guest House

 Check – In

 

6:30 – 10:00 PM

Dinner & Planned Social Activity

 

Wednesday, July 7

9:00 – 11:30 AM

ANL Tour Session 1

The Argonne Information Center

The Advanced Photon Source

ATLAS

Intense Pulsed Neutron Source

 

Host: Phyllis Nelson, ANL

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

Lunch

 

1:00 – 4:00 PM

Division of Educational Affairs

Host: Deon Ettinger, ANL

5:00 – 6:30 PM

Dinner

 

6:30 – 11:30 PM

Planned Social Activity

 

Thursday, July 8

9:00 – 10:00 AM

 

Hot Cell Tour

 

Host: Margaret Goldberg, ANL

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM

Virtual Reality Demo

Host: Ed Plaskacz, ANL

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Engineering Research Exhibition

Host: Roger Blomquist, ANL

1:30 – 5:00 PM

Drive to Bridgman , MI

Christenson, Popescu

5:00 – 8:30 PM

Welcome & Intro to Cook Nuclear Power Plant

Host: Kirk Newell, AEP

Friday, July 9

8:30 AM – 1:30 PM

 

Tour of Cook Plant & Simulator

 

Host: Kirk Newell, AEP

1:30 – 2:00 PM

Lunch

 

2:00 – 7:00 PM

Drive to Cincinnati

Christenson, Popescu