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

9350902 Dugan该项目为阿巴拉契亚及肯塔基州、弗吉尼亚州、西弗吉尼亚州、北卡罗来纳州和田纳西州的周边地区的小型学院创建仪器维修和维护服务。 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。 启动资金由赠款提供，随着项目的全面建立，通过用户费，学院贡献了越来越多的成本份额。

9350902 Dugan The project creates 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. Startup 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 fully established.