CEM shared its transformational research and world-class facilities during the College of Engineering’s Women in Engineering (WiE) “Change the World: WiE Are the Future” program on November 14, 2008. Nine girls (grades 10-12) from Ohio and Michigan attended the event. The girls observed thin film growth by pulsed laser deposition and had the opportunity to operate an x-ray fluorescence spectrometer while touring laboratories on campus. At the Campus Electron Optics Facility, the students witnessed the Titan 3 scanning/transmission electron microscope and Nova-600 dual-beam focused ion beam in action. Participants were also given a “hands-on” opportunity to drive a Sirion high-resolution field-emission gun scanning electron microscope.
