Restoring and Extending the Useful Life of Scientific Instrumentation in Regional Educational Institutions

恢复和延长地区教育机构科学仪器的使用寿命

• 批准号: 9729198
• 负责人: Robert Dugan
• 金额: $ 6.85万
• 依托单位: University of Kentucky Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-09-15 至 1999-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9729198&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Restoring; Extending; Useful; Life; Scientific

The project continues partial support for an instrumentation repair and maintenance service for small colleges in Appalachia and surrounding regions in Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee. These small academic institutions must buy and use modern scientific instruments so their mostly rural students are not at a disadvantage compared to those at major universities. Factory service for these instruments is, however, prohibitively expensive, and they are often idle when in need of repair due to this high cost. This program addresses this need by utilizing the service infrastructure at the University of Kentucky College of Engineering as a support base of technical expertise to keep these instruments operational at affordable costs to the small colleges. Partial funding is being provided by the grant, and through user fees the colleges are contributing an increasing share of the costs as the program becomes self-supporting.

该项目继续为阿巴拉契亚和肯塔基州、弗吉尼亚州、西弗吉尼亚州、北卡罗来纳州和田纳西州周边地区的小型学院提供仪器维修和维护服务的部分支持。这些小型学术机构必须购买和使用现代科学仪器，以便与主要大学的学生相比，他们大多数是农村学生。然而，这些仪器的工厂服务非常昂贵，并且由于这种高成本，当需要维修时，它们通常被闲置。该计划通过利用肯塔基州大学工程学院的服务基础设施作为技术专业知识的支持基础来满足这一需求，以使这些仪器以负担得起的成本运行到小型学院。 部分资金由赠款提供，随着该方案的自立，各学院通过用户费贡献了越来越多的费用份额。