FINAL PROJECT:Structures and Arguments > Guide for new interns, Improving Andrew Hoover's TES Microcalorimeter Work
Really good plan for workplace documentation. You can adapt the directions assignment approach to some of the tasks here.
Do you have visuals, from the simulations? How will you incorporate them?
I would suggest that you give the lab both a hard copy (perhaps in a binder) and a digital copy.
Do you have visuals, from the simulations? How will you incorporate them?
I would suggest that you give the lab both a hard copy (perhaps in a binder) and a digital copy.
December 5, 2017 |
Marybeth Shea
Marybeth Shea
Provide a background about the project in general. There is too much information to give the new intern everything they will need to know. This section serves to provide only key background information they will need to know to understand the rest of my document. The sources will point them in the direction of the rest of the details not included in this paper.
Middle:
Split into two sections first on the MCNP simulation, second on the addition of pixel elements simulation. Each section will be structured in the same way: Specific background information (where the project was when I started), what I did, why I did it, improvements that need to be made, why they need to be made.
End:
Give a summary the simulations I made, and then a summary of things that need to be done to improve the simulations.
Logos:
Figures in papers written by Andrew Hoover about past simulations and the detector, as well as other papers on transition edge sensors and the MCNP manual. As well as data from my own simulations showing where the inadequacies lie.
Pathos:
The new intern will need to know this information to do their job. Also, for nuclear proliferation.
Ethos:
Cite the scientists who built the detector, as well as my mentors who will be the mentors of the new intern as well.
Structures:
Using the beginning, middle, end structure outlined above. The bulk of the organization is in the 2 part structure in the middle; one part for each simulation I did.
Goals:
The new intern will have a full understanding of what I did any why I did it. This document will serve as a reference that they will use when they have questions about my work. By the end of their summer the MCNP simulation should be ready to compare to actual data, and the addition of pixel elements simulation should be turned into a full fitting program.