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

1337808Morton 该提案的中心目标是购买分析设备，以便在詹姆斯·麦迪逊大学 (JMU) 工程系快速建立可持续工程研究实验室。所要求的具体仪器是一种先进的高效液相色谱系统，其选择是基于对现有和悬而未决的研究产生最大和最直接影响的潜力。 JMU 是一所以本科为主的机构，其机构目标是培养优秀的本科生研究。该提案将显着推进这一系列目标，同时为发展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，专注于解决能源可用性和水质的双重挑战，这是全球社会可持续性挑战的根源。虽然最初，工程系的教师和本科生将最受益并使用本提案中要求的仪器，但其他学科（例如化学、生物化学、综合科学与技术以及地质学和环境科学）的教师和学生也将使用该仪器。

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.