ARFMP: Renovation of Ceramics/Power Metallurgy Processing Research Facilities

这项由研究设施办公室颁发的学术研究设施现代化计划(ARFMP)奖为伍斯特理工学院提供资金，用于沃什伯恩大楼的翻新和维修，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。受赠人提供的175,000美元和185,000美元的ARFMP赠款作为费用分摊，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作用的潜力。该项目将解决改善现有研究基础设施的需要，办法是将所有研究和研究培训活动集中在一个中心位置，并进一步重新配置空间，每个实验室单元都针对其具体的研究和研究培训职能进行优化。该奖项通过为开展研究和培养高质量的本科生和研究生提供更好的环境，为科学和工程基础设施做出贡献。在这些实验室培训的学生在基础研究和应用研究领域都很受欢迎。

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.