Questions about the Internship program should be addressed to Christine Ritter, critter@pppl.gov

If you are interested in applying for an internship, an application can be found here.

Recent projects include:

2005

 Will Fisher – Integrating Command Line Programs with JAVA clients

Marc Osherson – Integrating SCOPE with ELVIS and data optimization for reflectometer simulations

Karan Khanna – LabView control of the ECR sputter source

Emily Margolis/Everett Schlawin – Fluorescent dust transport in a DC glow discharge

2004

 Will Fisher – Time-Dependent Java-based Virtual Tokamak

Laura Wong – Low-speed wind tunnel for micro-air vehicles

Brian Zhao – Start-up of an Electron Cyclotron Resonance Sputter Source

Emily Margolis – Ion Acoustic Waves in a Dusty Plasma

2003

Aubrey Gale – Construction of the cooling system for an Electron Cyclotron Resonance Sputter Source

Christina Behrend – An Investigation of Plasma Parameters for Creation of a Dusty Plasma in a DC Glow Discharge

Shweta Narayan – Virtual Reality Tour of the National Spherical Torus Experiment

Niraj Sheth – Creation of a DC Glow Discharge Tube for Classroom Use (2^nd Place American Association of Physics Teacher’s Apparatus Competition, 2003)

          - Experimental Investigations of Dust levitation in a DC Glow Discharge (Presentation at 2003 American Physical Society Meeting)

2002

Jimmy Chiang – High Speed Video Analysis of Classroom Plasmas

Arturo Pizanno - High Speed Video Analysis of Classroom Plasmas

Chris Chan – Visualization of a DC Glow Discharge

Aditi Sriam – Bio-Plasma Physics Experiment

2001

Erik Kaiser, Marine Academy of Science and Technology, Sandy Hook, NJ 

Interactive Plasma Display 

http://ippex.pppl.gov/ekaiser 

Frank Provenzano, New Rochelle High School, New Rochelle, NY 

Analysis of Striations in a DC Glow Discharge Plasma 

• Semifinalist, 61th Annual Intel Science Talent Search 

2000 - 2001 

Matthew Siegel, New Rochelle High School, New Rochelle, NY

Glow Discharge Optical Emission Spectrometry for the Relative Calibration of Helium Emission Line Intensity vs. Concentration 

• Semifinalist, 60th Annual Intel Science Talent Search 

Garrett Young, Home Schooled, Branchburg, NJ 

Quasi-Elliptical Torsatron - A Study of Induced Radial Electric Fields and Plasma Heating

• Second Place, Physics, 2001 International Science and Engineering Fair 
• First Place, New Jersey Regional Science Fair 

1999 - 2000

Garrett Young, Home Schooled, Branchburg, NJ 

Isolating Plasma Species - Initiating Internal Electrostatic Fields for Plasma Heating 

• First Place, Physics, 2000 International Science and Engineering Fair

• First Place, New Jersey Regional Science Fair  

1998 - 1999

Garrett Young, Home Schooled, Branchburg, NJ 

Plasma Impurities in a Transverse Magnetic Field 

• Third Place, Physics, 1999 International Science and Engineering Fair

• First Place, New Jersey Regional Science Fair 

For further information, Please contact Dr. Andrew Post-Zwicker azwicker@pppl.gov tel. (609) 243-2150