MRI: Acquisition of a High Performance Liquid Chromatograph for the Establishment of a Sustainable Engineering Research Laboratory

1337808莫顿本提案的中心目标是收购分析设备，这将允许在詹姆斯麦迪逊大学（JMU）工程系快速建立一个可持续工程研究实验室。所要求的特定仪器是一种先进的高效液相色谱系统，根据其对现有和待进行的研究产生最大和最直接影响的潜力而选择。JMU是一所主要的本科院校，其机构目标是培养优秀的本科研究。该提案将大大推进这一系列目标，同时为开发一个研究实验室的长期目标提供初始投资，以培养本科研究人员，重点解决能源供应和水质的双重挑战，这是全球社会可持续性挑战的根源。虽然最初，基于工程系的教师和本科生将最受益并利用本提案中要求的仪器，但来自其他学科的教师和学生，如化学，生物化学，综合科学与技术，地质学和环境科学，也将利用该仪器。

1337808MortonThe central aim of this proposal is the acquisition of analytical equipment that will allow for the rapid establishment of a Sustainable Engineering Research Laboratory located in the Department of Engineering at James Madison University (JMU). The specific instrument requested, an advanced high performance liquid chromatography system, has been selected based on the potential for greatest and most immediate impact on existing as well as pending research. JMU is a primarily undergraduate institution with an institutional goal of fostering outstanding undergraduate research. This proposal will significantly advance this set of goals while providing the initial investment in the longer goal of developing a research laboratory to develop undergraduate researchers focused on solving the pair challenges of energy availability and water quality, which is at the root of the challenge to the global societal sustainability. While initially, faculty and undergraduate students based out of the Department of Engineering will most benefit and utilize the instrument requested in this proposal, faculty and students from other disciplines, such as Chemistry, Biochemistry, Integrated Science and Technology, and Geology and Environmental Science, will also utilize this instrument.