Sean Taplin: Environmental Engineering, Final Week
It’s hard to believe that it’s already over. This internship has been a great experience, and I’m very glad to have had the chance to do it. This week, we mostly worked on creating a video about everything that we did throughout the internship. First we scripted the video, figuring out what we were going […]
Sean Taplin: Environmental Engineering, Week Five
This week, we did a complete successful test of the sensor network, using temperature sensors in place of the CO2 sensors. With three nodes, data was gathered, sent through the main node to a computer, which printed the data to a CSV file which was then used to create a data map on a web […]
Sean Taplin: Environmental Engineering, Week Four
The main focus for this week was on the sensor network. We did a lot of work on the communication between nodes, and tested their ability to daisy chain between each other to reach the central computer. There were some other things we worked on. I continued work on the data map, which entailed learning […]
Sean Taplin: Environmental Engineering, Week 3
Wow! The internship is already halfway done. I’ve been having such a great time here that time has really been flying by. This week, I worked on three projects: creating a data map, managing heat for the Picarro instruments on the roof, and creating an apparatus to record some experiments Adriann is working on. For […]
Sean Taplin: Environmental Engineering, Week Two
This week at the University of Utah began with testing the CO2 sensor. Andrew, Charlie and I went on the Union roof to check that it would actually detect CO2 accurately, using the Panda Express vent on the roof. We first put the sensor as far away from the vent as we could, to get […]
Sean Taplin: Environmental Engineering, Week One
I started my internship at the University of Utah this week. I’m working with the Carbon Science and Engineering Research Group, lead by Dr. Brian McPherson. One of the major subjects of research of this group is carbon sequestration, a way to store CO2 underground so it doesn’t get into the atmosphere. The week started […]