FABRICATION, CHARACTERIZATION, AND TESTING CORE (FaCT CORE)

项目总结-制造、表征和测试芯（FACT芯） FaCT核心将提供RPL和其他人充分参与所需的生物医学工程支持。 开发、合成和验证用于基础或 应用生物医学研究和/或临床转化工作在COBRE的融合工程和 生物分子科学（CEBS）。这一创新的以工程为重点的核心将是现有的四个 工程学院的研究核心，其中三个已经是充电中心。FaCT核心将 合并爱达荷州微加工实验室IML），博伊西州材料表征中心（BSCMC）， 工程研究支持中心和生物医学工程中心。满足 根据CEBS COBRE的目标，研究人员必须能够制造各种各样的设备和结构， 简单的机械设备，通过机械加工，印刷或微加工更复杂的传感器。 制造完成后，研究人员还需要能够表征物理，光学和电学特性， 设备/传感器的性能，以评估其性能，用于所需的研究。因此，每项研究 这项工作将需要使用由FaCT核心提供的各种工具、仪器、流程和专业知识 设施和人员。FaCT核心将由一位新的核心总监监督，他将整合四个 设施管理，加强重点，以增加生物医学工程的使用，并管理 人员、设备和设施。核心总监将确定BEC的充值费率， 成为充电中心，并监督整个设施的充电率年度评估。到 激励CEB在FaCT核心中的响应性研究，将建立一个代金券计划来支付充值 服务成本。最后，FaCT核心将加入BSU、爱达荷州和 由INBRE和RAIN计划推广，供生物医学研究人员使用， 学术界、政府和私营企业。

PROJECT SUMMARY – FABRICATION, CHARACTERIZATION, AND TESTING CORE (FACT CORE) The FaCT core will provide the biomedical engineering support needed for RPLs and others to fully engage in the development, synthesis, and validation of devices, sensors, and systems to be used in foundational or applied biomedical research and/or clinical-translational work in the COBRE in Convergent Engineering and Biomolecular Science (CEBS). This innovative engineering-focused core will be a consolidation of four existing research cores in the College of Engineering, three of which are already recharge centers. The FaCT core will merge the Idaho Microfabrication Lab IML), the Boise State Center for Materials Characterization (BSCMC), the Engineering Research Support ERS) center, and the Biomedical Engineering Center (BEC). To meet CEBS COBRE goals, researchers must be able to fabricate a wide range of devices and structures from simple mechanical devices to more sophisticated sensors through machining, printing, or microfabrication. After fabrication, researchers will also need to be able to characterize physical, optical, and electrical properties of the devices/sensors to assess their performance for the required research. Hence, each research effort will require use of a variety of tools, instruments, processes, and expertise supplied by FaCT core facilities and personnel. The FaCT core will be overseen by a new Core Director who will consolidate the four facilities administratively, enhance the focus to increase biomedical engineering usage, and manage personnel, equipment, and facilities. The Core Director will establish the recharge rates for the BEC as it becomes a recharge center, and oversee annual assessments of recharge rates across the entire facility. To incentivize CEBs responsive research in the FaCT core, a voucher program will be established to pay recharge service costs. Finally, the FaCT core will join the ranks of core facilities at BSU, the state of Idaho, and the Mountain West that are promoted by the INBRE and RAIN programs for use by biomedical researchers in academia, government, and private industry.