We spent our Sunday at Shanghai's Science and Technology Museum. The exhibit topics ranged from dinosaurs to exhibits about Einstein's theory of relativity. The technology section had one display on the production microchips which talked about Moore's Law. Other exhibits detailed the history of science; each mentioning various famous scientists and their experiments. We also saw one of their science shows about the universe. Although it was in Mandarin, the show was still very nice and enjoyable.

Our team has now been in China for one week! We are beginning to become accustom to the foods and lifestyle here in Shanghai. Today our host student Long took us to the Shanghai Museum where we saw beautiful galleries filled with ancient ceramics, bronze artworks, Chinese paintings, and Chinese calligraphy. Some of the artwork dated back to the 21st century B.C. Afterwards we had lunch and ended our day walking down Nanjing Road, a street full of stores and restaurants known for being one of the world's busiest shopping streets.

Our team spent the day at the lab steadily making progress on their projects. Juan and Samson are beginning by first measuring the internal error of the oscilloscope to be used for the experiment. By figuring out the error introduced by the oscilloscope, we can a learn how to adjust our measurements accordingly so that our final recordings are as accurate as possible. Christine, Crystal, and Guthrie continued measuring the characteristics of MOSFETs. The procedure involves measuring the threshold voltage and varying temperatures to see the effects heat introduces to the behavior of the MOSFET.

Today our team took a break from the lab to visit one of China's premier universities: the Shanghai Institute of Technology. Upon their arrival at the university they were joined by another foreign group of engineering students from Ireland who were also there to tour the engineering school. We got a chance to see the different teaching labs used for electrical engineering courses, and we also got to see different robotics projects being made by undergraduate students. Among the different robots there was one that could shoot a volleyball into a basketball hoop! There was also a presentation by a master's student demonstrating his robotic arm project. After lunch, we were taken to a museum detailing many different Chinese traditional art and customs. Then we were taken to a nearby coffee shop full of different works of art. We ended our trip at the Guan Yin Temple. A monk walked us around the temple teaching us about the different buildings and statues around the temple.

Today our team began working at the Shanghai Institute of Microelectronics. We were assigned on to two different projects. Juan and Samson were chosen to work with Dr. Lou, and they were assigned to work on transmission line pulse testing. TLP is related to electrostatic discharge which is the sudden flow of electricity between two electrically charged objects caused by contact, a electrical short, or dielectric breakdown. Christine, Crystal, and Guthrie were assigned to work with Professor Shen and his colleague Xu Jia Liang. Their project involves the testing of MOSFETs. They will be testing the different characteristics of various MOSFETs such as threshhold voltage which is the minimum gate-to-source voltage needed to create a conducting path between the source and drain terminals.

The team visited the Shanghai Research institute of Microelectronics for the first time today in order to register and familiarize ourselves with the walk to the institute and its surroundings. We also visited the lab we will be working in and met the Dr. Lou, Professor Shen and his colleague Xu Jia Liang, with whom we will be working. A room was assigned to us where we can spend time doing online research.

The journey begins! Our team departed LAX Friday at 1:00am on July 1st and arrived safely the morning of July 2nd at 6:00am in Shanghai at the Pudong International Airport. We were met at the airport by our host students Zhao Long, a PhD candidate, and Deng, a recent Master's graduate. Although we were greeted with heavy rain and high humidity, we were nonetheless excited to finally be in China. We arrived at our apartment to drop off our things, and we left to a shopping center to eat lunch and pick up food and supplies. Our host professor Yuhua Cheng invited us to dinner at an art hotel nearby where we got a chance to try some traditional Shanghai foods such as eel.

The team put together a proposal presentation for a project we would work on before departure. The device proposed will measure the amount of a gas that forms in the atmosphere when 3 atoms of oxygen are combined to form ozone. Measuring this gas is important because high levels or concentrations of ozone in the earth's atmosphere cause damage to people, plants, and animals. This can be achieved using the principle of optical scattering. A sample of air is pumped at a constant rate through a dark sensing chamber (cylindrical duct). An LED with a wavelength of about 610 nm will cross the stream of air. Ozone will scatter this wavelength in all directions and it will be detected by a photo sensor positioned in a cylindrical duct located orthogonal to the LED beam The current measured by the photo sensor will be amplified and converted to digital data and processed by the computing system in order to detect the concentration of ozone in the air.

We were invited to a lecture given by Professor Leon O. Chua. Professor Chua was visiting from UC Berkeley where he has been teaching Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences since 1971. His lecture included information about the memristor and a brief history of the basic electrical components and their creators. The memristor is coined the fourth class of electrical circuit that joins the resistor, inducer and the capacitor at the nanoscale. It is composed of connected “memory resistors” whose “history” of applied voltages can be accessed. This unique property makes the memristor a promising storage devise and the first prototype was developed in HP labs. The possible electrical and biological applications of the memristor and its ability to store information were discussed.