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| Abigail's Dad, Eric Miller, gave an informative, interesting perspective on some of the things that electrical engineers do. As he said, we need more people with training in engineering to fill the jobs that are available in this career. Below is a video which captures just a few of the many points he shared with us. |
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
STEM Speaker Series - Eric Miller
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Thank you, Mr. Miller, for sharing what it is you do with the students on Team 6-4. I thought it particularly interesting when you mentioned that we do not have enough students qualified to fill all the engineering jobs that are available. Hopefully, there will be a group of 6-4 students who are now thinking about this as a career choice!
ReplyDeleteThank You for coming to our classroom! I really enjoyed your presentation and thought the CAT scans were cool. Thanks Again,
ReplyDeleteSusannah
thank you Mr.Miller for coming. I thought the slideshow you made was great. I enjoyed learning about CAT scans and why some things in x-rays are darker than others. I thought the CAT scans turning into faces were really cool.Thank you for coming!
ReplyDeleteBenji
How do x rays mess up your DNA?
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Realy interesting presetantatoin about x rays
ReplyDeletethank you so much for coming into our class and teaching us about x-rays and cat scans. It was really cool to learn about how light works on an x-ray. I thought that the coolest thing was when you told us about how the cat scan takes many many pictures so it can see all of the angles. Again, thank you so much for teaching us about your joe, it was really cool!
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thank you so much for sharing your expertise on electrical engineer. I thought it was really cool when you were talking about e-rays.
ReplyDeleteJack b
Thank you so much for coming into our classroom. I really learned a lot. I now really understand X-rays now. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteBen
Thanks for coming in! I never knew how cat scans and x ray machines actually works, but now I do! I found it interesting to know how easy it was to understand that! I always thought that it was much more complicated then that :)
ReplyDelete~Abigail
Thank you for coming to our class! It was really cool. I especially liked how you turned the CAT scans into Abigail's face.
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Maya
Thanks so much for coming into team 6-4 I learned alot about ex-rays. I thought it was cool how to had a picture and it was blurry and then it turned the regular picture. Thanks so much,
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Dear Mr. Miller,
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for coming in and explaining your interesting job at Tufts! I thought it was really cool that the more density was in the object, the less light could pass through. Thanks again!
Sincerely,
Ella
Thank you Mr.Miller I didn’t know that there was so much related between density and X-rays.Also I thought that blur of a picture could be turned into Abigal. I also cant believe they can do up 360 pictures can be taken in a cat scan. Thank you Mr.Miller!
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Hi all
ReplyDeleteI want to thank everyone for the kind words. I had a great time talking to you and am glad that I was able to share some of what I do for a living with everyone. It can get awfully abstract at times and it was good for me to think of ways of presenting the material in a way that was accessible to you.
There was a question about X-rays and DNA. First off, I cannot emphasize enough that great care is taken by people who build and use X-ray machines, CAT scanners etc to make them exceptionally safe for everyone. Indeed, I think most everyone would agree that whatever risk there is is more than offset by the great benefits these methods have brought to medicine. The benefits are so great that doctors would love to be able to use CAT more and more for new and different things. So, if people were to be getting more and more CAT scans or X-rays taken, the companies that build need to make them work using less intense X-rays in order to keep the risks as low as they are today. This is what has prompted the development of new algorithms for image formation. With all of this said, you can find a good description of how X-rays and DNA interact by clicking here
Thank you Mr.Miller for teaching us about x-rays and cat scans. When you showed us how x-rays worked I was fascinated. Also the examples that you gave were great! I love how you turned Mr.Smiley into Abigail that was so cool! Thank you again for coming to our class.
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Dear Mr.Miller,
ReplyDeleteThank you for coming in and showing Team 6-4 x-rays and C.A.T. scans. It was a really interesting presentation. It was so cool when you made Abagail's face pop up. I didn't know that to get a accurate x-ray or C.A.T. scan, you have to take it at multiple angles to see if a bone is broken or ot. Thanks again.
Karen
Thank you Mr. Miller for coming into our clss and teaching us about your job! I thought it was really cool that you can turn a CAT Scan into Mr. Smiley!!! I also thought it was really cool that a CAT Scan can turn into Abigail! I've learned many intersesting things about X-rays, CAT Scans, and Medical Imaging. Thanks again!!!
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Yordi
Thank You Mr.Miller for coming into our classroom and teaching us about what you do! When the picture of Abigail faded into a higher quality picture it was so fascinating! Also I thought it was so interesting how if an object has more density less light goes through it!
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Noy
Thanks for the awesome presentation. I thought the x-ray and CAT scans of Mr. Smiley were cool.I also learned that you need to look at every angle to identify a broken bone.
ReplyDelete~David
this was a very interesting visit.
ReplyDeletethank you soooo much for coming into our class and taking the time out of your day to teach us something new! my favorite part of your visit was when we saw abbys face change in an x-ray!it is amazing how cat skans and x-rays can do that! i only thought x-rays were for medical reasons only!
ReplyDeletethank you sooo much again,
sincerely,
jenny
i think it was really fun and cool learning about cat scans this seams like such a cool stem career and you tought me so much about xrays and cat scans thanks for coming
ReplyDeleteEthan S
Thank you Mr. Miller for coming to our classroom and telling us about x-rays and CAT scans! I think that the way x-rays work and CAT scans work are really cool, and I think that you have a very interesting STEM career!
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-Elaine
Thank you for coming in and showing us about CAT scans. I thought that the arrows were awesome. I remember one time I had to have x-rays taken. now I know how x-rays work!
ReplyDeleteAndrew
Thank you so much for coming in! I honestly had no idea how x-rays and CAT scans worked, so it was really cool to learn! I really liked how you showed the diagram with light going through different shapes blocking the light. Thanks again!
ReplyDelete--Elizabeth
Thank you for coming! How do you mess up DNA with a CAT scan? Before I didn't even know what a CAT scan was! Thank you for teaching me what a CAT scan was! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteCeline
Thank you so much for coming in! I always wondered how X-rays work, and now I know! I thought it was really cool when Abby's face showed up instead of Mr. Smiley.
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Isabel
thank you for speaking, Mr. Miller. i very much enjoyed your presentation. also, would it be possible to take a CAT scan and get a 3-d image, by not just taking shots in a 45 degree area, but also changing 45 degrees perpendicular to the firs 45 shots? when finished, you would have an image inside a dome, which could then be rotated, and looked at from different vantages. in total, you would be taking 2025 shots.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Mr.Miller, for coming in to our school to teach us all about X-Rays and CAT Scans and how they work, I apreiate it as well as team 6-4.
ReplyDelete-Nazareth
In answer to the question about 3D CAT scans, you definitely can get stunning 3D pictures using X-ray CT. There are a number of ways this can be done either by "stitching together" multiple slices or by collecting data differently from the way I talked about in class last week. If you look up Cone Beam Computed Tomography and Helical Scan Computed Tomography on the Web, you should be able to find some more information.
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