ARFMP: Renovation of Smith Engineering Building

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)奖为北卡罗来纳大学夏洛特分校提供资金，用于翻新和维修史密斯工程大楼，该大楼是该机构土木、电气和机械工程以及计算机科学研究和研究培训活动的所在地。这座建筑建于1966年，此后一直没有翻修过。受赠人提供的200,000美元和200,850美元的ARFMP赠款作为费用分摊将用于这些研究和研究培训设施的现代化，并将有助于维持工程学院研究计划的增长和日益增长的技术需求。该项目将解决改善现有研究基础设施的需要，办法是：(A)为大楼提供更好的环境控制，增加布线，以提高办公室和实验室之间的数据通信系统的速度和能力，并为研究生提供实验室空间；(B)安置或重新配置许多研究实验室和支助商店，以增加空间，提高新项目的使用效率；以及(C)改善实验室的安全。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。近年来，北卡罗来纳大学夏洛特分校的工程研究转向了几个对全国具有重要意义的领域，包括微电子和光电子以及计算机控制的制造。在这些实验室接受培训的学生在基础研究和应用研究领域都很受欢迎，因为翻修后，这些实验室将更适合这些研究。

This Academic Research Facilities Modernization Program (ARFMP) award from the Research Facilities Office provides funds to the University of North Carolina at Charlotte for the renovation and repair of Smith Engineering Building which houses that institution's civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering and computer science research and research training activities. This building was constructed in 1966 and has not been renovated since that time. The ARFMP grant of $200,000 and $200,850 provided by the grantee as cost sharing will be used to modernize these research and research training facilities and will help sustain the growth in and increasing technical demands of the research program of the College of Engineering. This project will address the need to improve the current research infrastructure by (a) providing better environmental control for the building, additional wiring to upgrade the data communications system between offices and laboratories in speed and capabilities, and space in the laboratories for graduate students; (b) locating or reconfiguring many of the research laboratories and support shops to achieve increased space with greater efficiency for use in new projects; and (c) improving the security of the laboratories. 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. Engineering research at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte has turned in recent years to several areas of significant national importance, including micro- and opto-electronics and computer-controlled manufacturing. Students trained in these laboratories, which will be better suited to such studies as a result of the renovation, are in demand in both basic and applied research fields.