RUI Site: Hands on Electrical Engineering Design Projects toSupport Reseach Conducted at the Sacramento Peak National Observatory

在萨克拉门托峰国家太阳天文台和埃尔帕索得克萨斯大学的合作下，电气工程和计算机工程的初级和高级学生利用暑假在UTEP和天文台进行设计项目的工作。目前，天文台工作人员没有时间或资源来改造或重新设计现有设备，这些设备虽然微不足道，但功能达到可接受的水平。这为许多旨在优化现有设备的学生设计项目打开了大门。这些项目包括设计一个用于望远镜控制的串口手提箱接口，开发一种对噪声不敏感的光纤链路，用于CCD相机数据，以及设计用于太阳观测的同步仪器的校准计时源。

In a cooperative effort between the National Solar Observatory at Sacramento Peak and the University of Texas at El Paso, junior and senior electrical engineering and computer engineering students spend the summer working on design projects at UTEP and at the Observatory. At present, Observatory personnel do not have the time or resources to retrofit or redesign existing equipment that, although marginal, functions at an acceptable level. This opens the door for many student design projects aimed at optimizing existing equipment. These projects include the design of a serial handbox interface for telescope control, the development of a noise insensitive fiber optic link for CCD camera data, and the design of calibrated timing source for synchronizing instruments used for solar observations.