Renovation of the Environmental Engineering and Sciences Research Laboratories

环境工程与科学研究实验室改造

• 批准号: 9415112
• 负责人: Vernon Snoeyink
• 金额: $ 101.5万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-05-15 至 1997-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9415112&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Renovation; Environmental; Engineering; Sciences; Research

NSF and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign will jointly fund the renovation of the Environmental Engineering and Science Research Laboratories of the Department of Civil Engineering. The facilities are located on the fourth floor of the Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory which was built in 1967. The original space was designed as traditional chemistry laboratories for use in water quality research. However, current and proposed research activities in the Environmental Laboratories have changed substantially over the past 28 years, and the existing facilities have become completely inadequate to address increasingly stringent regulations for drinking water, wastewater and solid waste, efficient, low-cost clean up strategies for hazardous waste spills and dumps, and aerosol science and air resources engineering. Renovation activity will focus on the enhancement of the HVAC and systems, and facilities for safe handling of hazardous materials. Temperature, particle, and humidity control are necessary for delicate electronic instrumentation, carefully controlled experiments and sample analysis. Many areas of environmental research have not been pursued, because facilities were not available to safely handle hazardous materials. Space reconfiguration and the addition of fume hoods and solvent storage will address this need. In addition, installation of an enhanced system for inter-laboratory data communications and re-design and improvement of bench configurations and casework will be important work undertaken with NSF support. The renovated facility will be a significant asset to research and research training efforts in four main areas: environmental microbiology and biological process engineering; physical/chemical treatment processes; aerosol science and air resources engineering; and biological monitoring and environmental resource management. The new facilities will aid researchers in the development of an in-house capability to apply molecular biology techniques to water quality control research, preparation of field studies and sample analysis, and for the safe and efficient handling of organic compounds and environmental pathogens. The beneficiaries of the project include 9 faculty, 50 masters and 25 Ph.D. students. Twenty percent of the graduate students are women, and 5% are Black or Hispanic. Wishing to encourage participation by a greater number of under-represented minorities in the Ph.D. program, the college has developed an effort to recruit and retain an increased number of these students.

NSF和伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校将共同资助土木工程系环境工程和科学研究实验室的翻新。 这些设施位于Newmark土木工程实验室的四楼，该实验室建于1967年。 最初的空间被设计为用于水质研究的传统化学实验室。 然而，在过去28年中，环境实验室目前和拟议的研究活动发生了很大变化，现有设施已完全不足以应对日益严格的饮用水、废水和固体废物法规，有效、低成本的危险废物溢出和倾倒清理战略，以及气溶胶科学和空气资源工程。 翻修活动将侧重于加强暖通空调和系统以及安全处理危险材料的设施。 温度、颗粒和湿度控制对于精密的电子仪器、精心控制的实验和样品分析是必要的。 许多环境研究领域尚未开展，因为没有安全处理危险材料的设施。 空间重新配置和增加通风橱和溶剂储存将满足这一需求。 此外，在NSF的支持下，实验室间数据通信的增强系统的安装以及实验台配置和个案工作的重新设计和改进将是重要的工作。 翻修后的设施将是以下四个主要领域的研究和研究培训工作的重要资产：环境微生物学和生物过程工程;物理/化学处理过程;气溶胶科学和空气资源工程;生物监测和环境资源管理。 新设施将协助研究人员发展内部能力，将分子生物学技术应用于水质控制研究、实地研究和样本分析的准备工作，以及安全和有效地处理有机化合物和环境病原体。 该项目的受益者包括9名教师，50名硕士和25名博士。学生 20%的研究生是女性，5%是黑人或西班牙裔。 希望鼓励更多代表性不足的少数民族参与博士学位。计划，学院已经制定了一项努力，以招募和留住这些学生的数量增加。