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University of Guanajuato FIMEE Salamanca - Valle de Santiago km. 3.5 + 1.8 km. Road. Telephone: 52 (464) 6479940 fax 2311 E-mail: spie.fimee@@@@gmail.com Web: http://spie.fimee.googlepages.com Salamanca, Guanajuato México

2007 - 2008 REPORT UNIVERSITY OF GUANAJUATO STUDENT CHAPTER

At the end of the first year of the University of Guanajuato Student Chapter we report the

activities we’ve done so far as a chapter. As well, we include the new chapter officers that were chosen in

a meeting that took place on June 26, 2008, by the actual members of the chapter. The new members will

be taking part of the future activities programmed to the next year with the support of our advisor and

several investigators of the optics area of the faculty.

NEW CHAPTER OFFICERS

In this section we mention the names of the new chapter officers chosen by the members of the

chapter so they will represent us during the next year in SPIE.

President: Janette Pérez Janyluj@hotmail.com

Vice President: Maricruz Ortiz Maricruz_ortizz@hotmail.com

Secretary: Cristina Herrera cristina_ghd@yahoo.com.mx

Treasurer: Manuel Delgado frolic_13@hotmail.com

MEMBERS

The members listed below are the ones which initiated the chapter and have been participating in

the past activities done by the chapter.

Claudio Valencia Loredo Ramón Gallardo

Maricruz Ortiz Zambrano Carlos Hernández

Rosa Pérez Chimal Daniel Jáuregui

Cristina Herrera Damián Eduardo Mar

Francisco Anguiano Alfredo Murrieta

Ernesto Cabal Cesar Navarro

Juan Castro Daniel Razo

Manuel Delgado Verónica Solís

Alejandro Espinosa Sergio Vázquez

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New members During the past year we’ve worked to grow up as a student chapter and as a result of that we

have new members. This proves that we’re working on this subject and we will continue doing it in order

to form a stronger chapter and to count on with more participation of the students of our faculty. The new

members are:

Fernando Salazar

Helena López

Agustin Filoteo

Francisco Alfaro

Silvia Cano

Omar Nieto

ACTIVITIES

The activities that we report here complete the ones in the last report. We have done these

activities as a group but we still have many goals to fulfill for which ones we are going to work hard to

reach every one of them.

1. 3er ENCUENTRO REGIONAL DE OPTICA “ERO” (3rth, Optic Regional Encounter) In this congress participated more than 15 speakers of the region. Among the institutions that

participated in this congress are INAOE, CEFATA-UNAM, UANL, CIO, UGCUL and UG. These

institutions participated in favour to the technology development and growth in optics. The congress took

place at Salamanca’s Campus facilities.

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Fig. 1. a) Secretary of the student chapter giving recognition to one of the speakers. b) Members of the student

chapter that were part of the organization committee.

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2. “ACADEMIA DE NIÑOS EN LA CIENCIA” (Children in Science Academy) The state government among some public institutions supported by students of the faculty and

the student chapter SPIE, have made possible the “Academia de Niños en la Ciencia” (Children in Science

Academy). This academy gets together students groups of elementary school to teach them the work of

teachers working in the investigating area. The student chapter SPIE is the responsible to show the

children the optic laboratory of the faculty and make some optic experiments such as kaleidoscopes, 3D

lens, among others; the children have the advantage to make these experiments to understand better and

in this way they can learn when they’re having fun.

Fig. 2 these are some of the activities that were done by the children in the “Academia de Niños en la Ciencia”

(Children in Science Academy). A member of the student chapter is explaining one of the experiments at the optic

laboratory.

Fig. 3 we see how a member of the student chapter is showing a group of children how to make a simple

kaleidoscope.

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3. OPTOELECTRONIC SEMINARY In order to have a personal development of each member of the chapter and the people interested

in the optic area we have carried out a seminary that consist on the presentation of the advances or results

of a project made by a student or teacher. As well as the investigations made along the careers of the

optoelectronic academic department of the faculty. We’ve had the participation of three master students

and a bachelor student according to the next calendar.

Student Theme Tutor Eduardo M. Mar R. Erbium Doped Fiber Laser Coupled with a

Thick Grid.

Dr. Julián M. Estudillo A.

Ing. Juan C. Hernández G. Automation of the Manufacturing Process Of

Fiber-Optic Gratings Using Electric Arc

Technique

Dr. Julián M. Estudillo A.

Ing. Silvia E. Cano R.

Photonic Crystal Fiber Gas Sensor. Dr. Everardo Várgaz. R.

Dr. Julián M. Estudillo A.

Ing. Cristina G. Herrera D. Optical tweezers. Dr. Edgar Alvarado M.

Fig. 4. Pictures of the seminary audience assisting to the optic seminary made by the student chapter and the

optoelectronic academic group of the faculty in its facilities.

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Fig. 5 Pictures of some of the speakers that participated on the optic seminary

4. LECTURES The optoelectronic academic group of FIMEE and the student chapter SPIE organized a lecture

called “Nanotecnología. Aplicaciones y Limitaciones” (Nanotechnology. Applications and Limitations),

gave by Dr. Daniel Hernández Cruz from the of the advanced materials division of the “Instituto Potosino

de Investigación”. The lecture took place at the faculty facilities on June 13 of this year.

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Fig. 6 pictures of Dr. Daniel Hernández giving his lecture about nanotechnology.

5. WEB SITE We’ve been working on the creation and actualization of a web site of the student chapter in order

to report activities, events, news and all the information about the work and research done by the chapter.

Fig. 7 Student chapter SPIE web site prototype.

6. DIFUSION

In order to get more students interested in our chapter we try to let them know about what we do.

There are some activities and events made by the faculty in which we participate to inform the students

our work. In the next lines we describe some of these activities.

Engineering Week Stand Due to the engineering week some information stands were placed in the faculty. One of them

was assigned to our group where we let the student community know our work as a student chapter of

SPIE. We made pamphlets where we show pictures and information of our activities. These pamphlets

were given to the students. We also showed some posters and SPIE Professional volumes so they can

know what benefits they could get if they joy our group. We also gave information about membership,

congresses, and events organized bye SPIE.

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Fig 8 Information stand of the student chapter SPIE during the Cultural Week of Salamanca Campus. Membesr of

the chapter giving information to students interested in the chapter.

Conexiones Magazine

In July 2008 the magazine “Conexiones” of the “Correo de Guanajuato” news paper gave a space

dedicated to students groups of FIMEE. In this space they talked about the student chapter SPIE. One can

consult this article on the next web site: http://www.correo-gto.com.mx/notas.asp?id=73047

Fig. 9 Pictures of the web site dedicated to the students chapter of FIMEE on the Conexiones magazine.

7. OPTOELECTRONIC “SEMINARY SUMMER”

Students from different universities participated in the seminar optoelectronics summer in our university

on July 23 of this year according to the next order.

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Name Title Adviser Faculty Jesús Crisanto

Damián García

“ Experimental Evidence Of

A Virtual Instrument For A

Spectrum Analyzer optic”

Dr. Julián Moisés

Estudillo Ayala

Technological Higher

Institute of Centla

Jesús Delgado Parra “ Developing a graphical

user interface GUL for

applications in image

processing ”

Dr. Amparo Andrade

Lucio

Technological Institute

of Villahermosa

Cinthya Solís Casillas “ Preparation glass Sol-Gel

With Liquid Crystal ”

Dra. Mónica Trejo

Durán

Technological Higher

Institute of Irapuato

Manuel Alberto de la

Cruz Dominguez

“ Design gas sensors optic” Dr. Everardo Vargas

Rodríguez

Technological Higher

Institute of Comalcalco

Carlos Javier

Gonzalez Méndez

“ Atropa Of

Microorganisms By optical

tweezers”

Dr. Edgar Alvarado

Mendez

Technological Institute

of Sierra Region

Rosa Janette Pérez

Chimal

“ Implementation of fiber

laser tuner Erbio”

Dr. Julián Moisés

Estudillo Ayala

Faculty of Engineering

Mechanical, Electrical

and Electronic

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FUTURE ACTIVITIES

We got a lot of proposals to make our group grow in many different ways. In this section we’ll

mention some divulgation and formation activities.

Divulgation � To invite high school students to our faculty and give them lectures about our chapter and optics

themes. To give them a tour of the faculty facilities and laboratories.

� To organize a science fair for the students of the faculty and other schools.

� To organize an optic workshop to all public interested in this area.

� To create an optic week.

� To promote our student chapter among the others student groups in the faculty to work together

in activities related to the improvement of students groups in the university.

� To invite another SPIE students chapters of México to know how they work and to create bounds

with them so in a future work together.

� To organize a job fair so that the students get to know businessmen, companies and researches

that may need employees.

� To have information pamphlets available at the beginning of each trimester to attract students to

become members of the chapter.

� To keep actualized the web site of the chapter.

� To get together every two weeks to comment important points or activities that have to be done

by the chapter.

Formation � To invite professors of the faculty to show the students their research work.

� To project documental related to the optic area.

� To have lectures for the faculty students presented by the researches of the faculty inviting the

students to work on a specific project.

� To participate on congresses of SPIE.

� To invite researches of other faculty or university to give a lecture about their work in the

scientific area.

� To invite a speaker of international level to give a lecture about a specific subject on optics or

photonics.

� To visit companies that develops optic products.

� To visit other laboratories of other faculties, universities or research institutes.

� To visit the “Observatorio la Luz” and “La Azotea” in Guanajuato state.