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Students in Dr. Harper’s PHYS-318 course are working on a class project to develop a software control system for an Automated Gas Environment System (AGES) that is being built at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The students will write software in LabVIEW to allow a user to safely direct a specified flow of a mixture of gases to a sample under investigation at the SNS. The completed system will be used for experiments at the SNS by Dr. Kintzel and other users.

Pictured from left to right along with the AGES hardware are Jonathan Craft, Jacob Baxley, Doug Harper, and Ed Kintzel from WKU and Landon Solomon of the ORNL SNS Sample Environment Group.

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