Led by Mark Mondry, executive in Residence for the Division of Economics and Business, the ETM lecture series are seminars designed to help professionals achieve success in an increasingly global economy. Last week was the second seminar in the series, “The Value of Networking, Social Media, and Professional Organizations.”
As many students may or may not know, the Colorado School of Mines offers many different instruments to help the students obtain data that would otherwise be impossible to find. Such data includes the elemental breakdown of a random metal alloys or the composition of an organic solid. Such processes used to identify these substances are X-ray photo electron systems, also known as spectrometers. The spectrometer at Mines has a one percent sensitivity rate, giving data that is accurate to that degree. The sputter rate, the rate at which electrons are fired at an object, is 1 nanometer per minute. An auger spectrometer is available in Meyer Hall 175. It uses a process call AES, which means it uses an electron beam that is 0.3 –1 nanometer in diameter to obtain high counts on the near surface area. This machine provides an analysis of the surface area that is about 30 angstroms deep.