The tools to prepare mechanical structures in fundamental
quantum states are being rapidly developed, using both optical and
electrical techniques.  The first major goal of this community is to
prepare and measure the quantum ground state.  To accomplish this, we
are preforming experiments with a mechanical resonator parametrically
coupled to a electrical resonator.  The mechanical resonator is a very
low dissipation (Q>1M), 6 MHz, nanomechanical structure; the electrical
resonator is a lithographic, low dissipation (Q=20,000), superconducting
niobium, 7.5 GHz resonator. We pump this structure with carefully
prepared microwave photons and demonstrate cooling of the mechanical
structure of quantum occupation <N>=3.8.  Our hope is that this work
will lead to the formation and measurement of much more exotic and
nonsensical states of simple and ordinary, mechanical structures.