Was the lead student on constructing a LEGO Brewster Angle Microscope. The Brewster Angle Microscope is a microscope used for imaging and studying films on liquid surfaces. Films can be as thing as a few molecules thick. The microscope was used in an upper-division Physical Chemistry course as well as for general imaging and research.
For the project I helped draft and construct the microscope, and developed the LabVIEW program to motorize the cameras and lenses, as well as developed a program to parse through images and extract the reflectivity of biofilms.
The program included a 2D line-of-focus stacking algorithm and numerical integration.
I also instructed Physical Chemistry students in the use of the microscope during their labs. Prior to the instrument students had no way of visualizing the films.
The project culminated with a paper published in the American Journal of Physics.
Position was paid during Summers and for credit during regular quarters.
