Sarah Beth Doman

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• Objective:

  • Summer intern position in the materials science engineering field

• Education:

  • B.S. Materials Science Engineering, May 2000
    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
    Blacksburg, Virginia 24061
    

• Experience:

  • Intern, June 1996-August 1996
  • Naval Surface Warfare Center, White Oak, Maryland
  • Worked in the Positive Ion-Accelerator Facility under Dr. Jack Price
  • the Navy's rocket nozzles experience high temperatures and the materials presently used corrode easily due to oxidation
  • Our task: to produce a hafnium nitride (HfN) coating using ion-implantation, analysis, and modification
  • What I did: used Nuclear Reaction Analysis (NRA), Rutherford Backscattering Spectroscopy (RBS) and Particle Induced X-Ray Emission (PIXE) to determine that halfnium and nitrogen can be profiled and are useful in characterizing the HfN coating; also, a halfnium beam can be produced
    
    
  • Intern, June 1995-August 1995
  • Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
  • Worked in the Space Geodesy and Altimetry Projects Office, Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics under Mrs. Carey Noll
  • Learned Hyper-Text Markup Language (HTML) in order to create World Wide Web pages for the many Crustal Dynamics Data Information System sites around the world
  • Programmed in C to convert a Global Positioning System date into a calendar date

• Skills:

  • Programming Language (FORTRAN, some C and BASIC), HTML,
    Word Processing (Excel, Microsoft Word), some AutoCAD

• Activities:

  • Corps of Cadets, Band (the Highty Tighties, University Symphonic
    Band), New Life Campus Fellowship, Circle K