Operations and Maintenance Support: Surface Science Western, Western Nanofabrication and Tandetron Accelerator Facilities

运营和维护支持：表面科学西部、西部纳米加工和 Tandetron 加速器设施

• 批准号: RTI-2017-00779
• 负责人: Shoesmith, David
• 金额: $ 10.93万
• 依托单位: University of Western Ontario
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Research Tools and Instruments
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2016-01-01 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=616764
• 关键词: Operations; Maintenance; Support; Surface; Science

This OMSRE application aims at maintaining three facilities specialized in material science that are located, operated and maintained at Western University. Surface Science Western, the Tendetron accelerator and the Western Nanofabrication Facilities been operated at Western since 1981, 1986 and 2004, respectively. All together, they employ 16 employee in addition to their three directors (Shoesmith, Goncharova, Lagugné-Labarthet) that hold professor positions at Western. The facilities have been running with no interruption since their inception making them facilities of choice for any researcher in needs of expertise in material and surface characterization, material implantation and surface patterning. The facilities have been very successful participating to more than 400 manuscripts annually as well as patents in critical fields such as corrosion science or sensing applications. In order to maintain the numerous instruments located in these facilities at their highest operation levels, the Maintenance and Operational support for research equipment grant is critical to allow one to further promote and facilitate the access to our users by reducing the maintenance and operational costs that are presently only supported by the user-fee from the researchers using the facilities. Only three full-time employee have their salaries+benefits covered by the Faculty of Science at Western. The facilities together are therefore generating enough revenues to cover the full salaries+benefit of 13 employees from the academic user-fee and industrial contracts. This causes an important strain on our maintenance budget and prevent modernization and upgrades of some of our apparatus in reasonable time. The requested budget aims at maintaining the instrument located in the facilities and facilitating its access by limiting the operational costs. This will allow to reduce users fee, and subsequently to continue promoting our facility in a more efficient way to our local, national and international users.

该OMSRE应用程序旨在维护位于西部大学的三个专门从事材料科学的设施，运营和维护。表面科学西部，Tendetron加速器和西部纳米纤维设施自1981年以来一直在西部，1986年和2004年分别运行。他们总共雇用了16名员工，除了他们的三名董事（Shoesmith，Goncharova，Lagugné-Labarthet）在西方担任教授职位。这些设施自成立以来一直在不间断地运行，使其成为任何需要材料和表面表征，材料植入和表面图案化专业知识的研究人员的首选设施。这些设施每年都非常成功地参与了400多份手稿以及腐蚀科学或传感应用等关键领域的专利。为了保持位于这些设施中的众多仪器处于最高运行水平，研究设备的维护和运行支持补助金对于通过减少维护和运营成本来进一步促进和促进我们的用户的访问至关重要，目前这些成本仅由使用这些设施的研究人员的用户费支持。只有三名全职员工的工资+福利由西校区理学院支付。因此，这些设施共同产生的收入足以支付13名员工的全额工资+学术用户费和工业合同的福利。这对我们的维护预算造成了很大的压力，并阻止了我们在合理的时间内对一些设备进行现代化和升级。 所要求的预算旨在维持设施内的仪器，并通过限制业务费用便利其使用。这将有助于降低用户费用，并随后继续以更有效的方式向我们的本地，国家和国际用户推广我们的设施。