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Fascinating and very similar to what we have to go through in the particle physics community to get experiments to output data. I find it strange though that a
by PoachedSausage 9y ago
Fascinating and very similar to what we have to go through in the particle physics community to get experiments to output data.
I find it strange though that a good microscope team doesn't include an electronic engineer, yet:
>requires a knowledge of optics, mechanics, electronics, computer programming and biology.
- frozenport 9y agoThere are no "good microscope teams", the guy in the article worked for a noble prize laureate who routinely brags about having unlimited funding (for example, at Photonics West). There is nothing novel about the design and implementation, perhaps they got some new science with the experiments... I knew a guy who got a paper out in nature photonics, it took him 2 years to build a straight forward design. When his PI founded a company, the company re-did the work from scratch. It took them less than two months to make a C++ version. Features included the system not crashing. Later they got FDA approval. In summary, most people working in the field are graduate students with no practice experience, and competent engineers only appear when you need to commercialize a medical instrument. There are no microscope teams.
- posterboy 9y agoParticle Physics is high power, as far as I know, so the requirements for an electrical engineer might be quite different to low power drive circuitry. On the other hand, signal processing is inherently intertwined with electronics, so I'm sure they have technicians on board to deal with that, too.
- dekhn 9y agoMost of the electrical components in a modern high end microscope are basically off-the-shelf. You don't need a fulltime electrical engineer.