Projects
MIT Microelectronics WebLab: an Online Microelectronics Device Characterization Laboratory
("If you can't come to the lab... the lab will come to you!")
Prof. Jesus A. del Alamo (EECS), David Zych, James Hardison
The MIT Microelectronics WebLab is an online laboratory that allows the remote characterization of transistors and other microelectronic devices through the Internet. The WebLab project was started in 1998 to provide a laboratory experience for students in microelectronics courses at MIT that did not include a device characterization component before. Since its first deployment, over 800 students have used WebLab in class assignments for credit at MIT as well as Singapore and Sweden.
Prof. Jesus A. del Alamo received the degree of Telecommunications Engineer from the Polytechnic University of Madrid in 1980, and the MS and Ph. D degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1983 and 1985, respectively. His current research interests are on Gigahertz power transistors: Si LDMOS on SOI, RF power CMOS, GaAs PHEMTs and InP HEMTs. He is also active in online laboratories for science and engineering education. Jesus has won numerous teaching awards.
David Zych received an S.B. degree in Computer Science from the MIT in 2000, and an M.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 200. In addition to his research with the Microelectronics WebLab development team, David is a lecturer in the Concourse program, where he teaches recitation sections for the freshman physics courses 8.01 and 8.02.
James Hardison received an S.B in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the MIT in 2002. In his third year on the WebLab Team, he works as a full-time Internet applications developer with the project.
