4 papers
The Adaptive Optics Summer School Laboratory Activities
S. Mark Ammons, Scott Severson, J. D. Armstrong +17
Adaptive Optics (AO) is a new and rapidly expanding field of instrumentation, yet astronomers, vision scientists, and general AO practitioners are largely unfamiliar with the root…
Teaching Optics and Systems Engineering With Adaptive Optics Workbenches
David Harrington, Mark Ammons, Lisa Hunter +4
Adaptive optics workbenches are fully functional optical systems that can be used to illustrate and teach a variety of concepts and cognitive processes. Four systems have been fund…
Teaching Charge Coupled Devices Using Models as Part of the Engineering Design Process at Maui Community College
Isar Mostafanezhad, Johnny Tam, Ciril Rozic +4
The CCD Modeling Activity was designed to supplement the curriculum of the Electrical and Computing Engineering Technology program at the Maui Community College. The activity was d…
The Design and Implementation of the Akamai Maui Short Course
Ryan Montgomery, David Harrington, Sarah Sonnett +5
We describe the design and elements of implementation of the Akamai Maui Short Course (AMSC). The AMSC contains four full inquiry activities each of which builds on those previous:…