It has been shown that under certain conditions, the characteristics of ultracold neutral plasmas, can be reproduced in laser-produced plasmas at room temperature. We are attempting to see more fully how true this is, by trying to control the electron temperature in a laser-produced plasma. We expected that by decreasing the intensity of our laser when we ionize our gas we would see the expansion of our plasma slow down, and hence deduce that the electron temperature had been lowered. We had difficulty observing this result experimentally. We modeled the system and found that if we increase our laser intensity, we should be able to observe the phenomenon we had hypothesized. The experimental and modeling processes are here outlined, as well as thoughts on how to improve the experiment in the future.