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Why spend big bucks if you don\u2019t have to? That\u2019s what Taylor GurrEithun \u201920 and Shelby Stegmaier \u201919 must have thought when they were working on a summer research project creating oscillators with Assistant Professor of Physics David Mertens.<\/h3>\n[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”32″][vc_column_text]Mertens is researching the finite-size effects in synchronization, and that work requires a large collection of coupled analog electronic oscillators.<\/p>\n

\u201cBroadly speaking, there are many systems\u2014most of them oscillating, things like the pacemaker cells in your heart. They will fire at all different rates, and then they mutually agree on a consistent rate and fire identically,\u201d Mertens explained. \u201cI\u2019m studying that synchronization. The specific question I am drilling into is how quirkiness affects the ability of a group to synchronize.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oscillator circuits require patterns that are often made with manufactured stencils. Those stencils when custom ordered can cost up to $100 each. Mertens\u2019s project might require many. That\u2019s when the students stepped in with a bright idea.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a collaborative effort. We started Googling ways to make the stencils and realized we had the equipment here,\u201d Taylor said.<\/p>\n

So Taylor and Shelby set out to make their stencils with a 20-dollar roll of vinyl and the vinyl cutter in the EC MakerSpace<\/a>, a student club<\/a> and workshop for engineers and creatives who want to work with their hands to produce art and functional objects.<\/p>\n

The improvised stencils worked masterfully and saved $900 on the research project. Once the summer ended, the team stayed together to complete Mertens\u2019s research throughout the Fall Semester.<\/p>\n

Taylor and Shelby were two of three students who worked in Mertens\u2019s lab this summer, thanks to a grant from Dr. Marion Marshall White \u201974 to support physics research. White earned her bachelor\u2019s degree in Physics, Biology and Languages. She went on to earn her Ph.D. in Experimental Particle Physics at MIT, where she worked on her thesis with Samuel Ting\u2014who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1976 for discovering the J\/\u03c8 meson nuclear particle.<\/p>\n

Taylor, a physics<\/a> major from Madison, Wis., said she loved working in the laboratory and collaborating with other students to solve problems that arise in the course of a project. \u201cI could do this for a living,\u201d she laughed. \u201cIt would be nice.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”24″][vc_column_text]\n

Banner photo: Darius Bashar on Unsplash<\/em><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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