Center for Adaptive Optics Summer School: this team of scientist/engineer educators designed and taught an inquiry lab activity through ISEE’s Professional Development Program

Venue: Center for Adaptive Optics Summer School, Santa Cruz CA

Team Members: 

Nicole Putnam (Design Team Lead): Assistant Professor, Arizona College of Optometry, Midwestern University

Hanieh Mirhajianmoghadam: Graduate Student, College of Optometry, University of Houston

Suman Adhikari: Graduate Student, College of Optometry, University of Houston

Audience: 29 graduate level students, Lecturers and others

Activity Name:  Ocular wavefront analysis and customized vision correction

Learning Goals:  Using image quality metrics, such as Strehl ratios, and convolution to to describe vision qulality and how vision is improved with different corrections, and constructing explanations using evidence.

Funding for this team was provided by: National Science Foundation (AST#1643290)