ARFMP: Renovation of Ceramics/Power Metallurgy Processing Research Facilities

这项学术研究设施现代化计划（ARFMP）由研究设施办公室颁发，为伍斯特理工学院提供资金，用于翻新和维修沃什伯恩大楼，该大楼是机械工程系陶瓷和粉末冶金加工研究和研究培训活动的所在地。这座建筑建于1897年，最后一次翻修是在1956年。受资方作为分摊费用提供的ARFMP赠款17.5万美元和18.5万美元将用于使这些研究和研究培训设施现代化，并巩固目前分散的研究和研究培训活动，以便更充分地发挥其协同潜力。该项目将通过将所有研究和研究培训活动放在一个中心位置，并通过进一步重新配置空间来解决改善当前研究基础设施的需求，每个实验室模块都针对其特定的研究和研究培训功能进行优化。该奖项为科学和工程的基础设施提供了一个更好的环境，以进行研究和培养高素质的本科生和研究生。在这些实验室受过训练的学生在基础研究和应用研究领域都很有需求。

This Academic Research Facilities Modernization Program (ARFMP) award from the Research Facilities Office provides funds to Worcester Polytechnic Institute for the renovation and repair of the Washburn Building which houses the Mechanical Engineering Department's ceramics and powder metallurgical processing research and research training activities. This building was constructed in 1897 and last renovated in 1956. The ARFMP grant of $175,000 and $185,000 provided by the grantee as cost sharing will be used to modernize these research and research training facilities and to consolidate currently dispersed research and research training activities so that their synergistic potential may be more fully realized. This project will address the need to improve current research infrastructure by placing all research and research training activities in a central location and by further reconfiguring the space, with each laboratory module optimized for its specific research and research training functions. This award contributes to the infrastructure of science and engineering by providing an improved environment for the conduct of research and for the training of quality undergraduate and graduate students. Students trained in these laboratories are in demand in both basic and applied research fields.