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• Bonner
Lab Summer Fellowships
If you are interested in applying for one of these positions, contact
Pameula Reynolds,
BL Adminstrator or
· Electronic engineering position opening at Bonner Nuclear Laboratory at Rice University
The Bonner Nuclear Lab is seeking an electronic engineer experienced in detector and data acquisition electronics development. The candidate should be familiar with data acquisition systems commonly used in high energy physics such as CAMAC, VME, etc. The engineering effort will be mostly in a VME environment but some experience in analog systems is desirable. The Bonner lab is responsible for two major detector system projects. One is STAR (Solenoidal tracker at RHIC) and the other the CMS muon endcap electronics at CERN. The STAR detector is scheduled for turn-on in the summer of 1999. This will be followed by a number of years of upgrade system development. The CMS project is scheduled for turn-on in 2005 to 2006. This project will also be followed by a series of upgrades.
STAR: Rice is responsible for a number of subsystems in the STAR detector at RHIC. Each of these subsystems requires electronics mounted directly on the detector as well as rack mounted electronics used for data acquisition and triggering.
CMS: Candidate will be responsible for the design, layout and manufacture of the CMS endcap muon trigger mother board. This board will take digital signals from the front end trigger cards, sort and reformat the information and pass it to subsequent boards in the chain. This board will also manage the Trigger Timing and Control logic for the end cap muon system. It is expected that the board will use FPGA’s and will have a JTAG interface. Knowledge of VME is required. The candidate will also be responsible for the endcap muon trigger port card. This will take data from the motherboards, sort and reformat the data and pass it on to the muon triggering system using optical links.
General: We expect the successful candidate will be responsible for the overall management of our electronics development efforts, working closely with the physicists in deciding what cutting edge detector projects we can accomplish. It is anticipated that the candidate will supervise the work of at least two electronics technicians and one mechanical technician. Others may be hired as required.
· Here is the announcement of the 2000 BL Summer Fellows program. Here is a directory of BL people with email addresses and phone numbers.
Summer Fellows for 1998 will be working on some of the projects detailed in the progress reports for High Energy Physics or Medium Energy Physics. Briefly, we have major equipment construction responsibilities for the following projects: Dzero at Fermilab, the Compact Muon Solenoid project at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, and the Solenoidal Tracker at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (STAR at RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory. You can read about these projects or just come by and discuss them with some of the people in BL.
We have been very fortunate to have some of the top Rice Physics Majors working as Summer Fellows. Here is a list of our Summer Fellows for the past few years.
1993 Paul Carter, Andy Hocker, Patrick Rambo, Ken Fair, Don Priour, Josh Bergman
1994 Joel Patterson, Angela Bellavance, Andy Hocker, Brett McKinney
1995 Jason Tumlinson, Angela Bellavance, Bruce Knuteson, Brian Flatt, Michael Morgan, Andy Hocker
1996 Andrew Iyengar, Vijay Iyer, Michael Morgan, Bruce Knuteson, Aaron Pierce, Angela Bellavance
1997 Kyle Cranmer, Andrew Iyengar, Jay Provine, Allen Lee, Aaron Pierce
1998 Kyle Cranmer, Mark Wyman, Joseph Abraham,
Jason Edwards, Harlan Howe, Anna Huang
1999 Andrew Askew, Stewart Becker, Casey Israel, Elisabeth Rareshide, William Ray, Jason White, Collin Wolfe