Dear Faculty:
Thank you for participating in our infrastructure competition. We had over 70 faculty involved in requests totaling nearly $750,000 towards new equipment or upgrades, and proposed additional matching funds in excess of $650,000 from faculty and/or Schools.
After evaluating the proposals, we are fully or partially funding 23 of the 29 submitted proposals. Funding for the successful proposals, slightly in excess of $525,000, is provided by the dean’s Research office and OKED. Because some of the equipment will be used to support teaching, some student program fees were also made available by the dean. Matching funds from faculty and Schools contribute another nearly $400,000 towards the equipment. Therefore, faculty, school directors, OKED and the dean’s office will proceed in purchasing nearly $900,000 in new equipment/upgrades this year. This is GREAT and significantly increases your access state-of-the-art facilities.
Below is a table summarizing the new equipment that was approved for purchase and faculty collaborators. This equipment is available for everyone to use and we encourage you to contact funded recipients. Because of our funding sources, we want the orders for the equipment to be placed by the end of May 2012. My office will be providing each of the School BOMs with account numbers, and questions regarding accounting from the Dean’s office should be directed to Sabrina.Carretie@asu.edu. Funds not encumbered by mid-June 2012 may not be available later for purchasing the equipment.
For proposals not selected, or not fully-funded, I will be providing you with feedback over the next week. I want to again thank everyone who participated. We may not have the opportunity to repeat this next year, but please keep a list in your mind of equipment that could be used jointly by multiple faculty.
Sincerely,
Paul Westerhoff, Ph.D., PE
Associate Dean for Research
Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
| Equipment | Collaborators | School | Location |
| 3-D Projection System for Virtual Reality Applications | Buneo, Santello, Helms Tillery, Santos, Artemiadis | SBHSE | PEBE |
| Paired pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation | Kleim, Santello, Helms Tillery, Bhardwaj, Adelson | SBHSE | PEBE |
| MRI compatible perfusion chamber | Bennett, Kodibagkar, Frakes, Turner, Hu | SBHSE | PEBE |
| (2) 3-D printers / solidscape | Frakes, Pizziconi, Caplan, La Belle, Adrian, Santos, Santello, Helms Tillery, Snyder, Kozicki, Vernon | SBHSE | SCOB |
| Cloud Computing Lab | Huang, Ahn, Chen, YH Lee, Yau, Slade | CIDSE | BYENG 471 |
| ZeGage Profiler | Thornton, Phillips, YH Zhang, Bowden, Chae, Dai, Goodnick, Yu, Bowden, Jiang, LaBaer, Phelan, Wiktor | ECEE | CSSER cleanroom |
| Atomic Layer Deposition Tool | Yu, Chan, Goodnick, Namanich, Lindsay, Dai, Goryll, Yu, Chae, Christen, Tracey, Thornton, Honsberg, Phillips, Kozicki, Dey, Alford, Myhajlenko, Drucker, Newman | ECEE | CSSER cleanroom |
| Teaching lab with hands-on skills for photonic material and device characterization | Zhang, Goryll, Johnson, Yu, Phillips, Tao, Ning, Skromme, Thornton, Bowden, Yu, Christen | ECEE | EEE598 |
| Cluster of 3-5 computers (multi-core, >48GB Ram)* | Hedman, Zhang | ECEE | ERC |
| Deep-level transient spectroscopy | Schroder | ECEE | ERC240 |
| Computer for GOWMAC Gas Chromatograph. Upgrading of a gas chromatograph system to allow for digital chromatograph data acquisition | Fox, Westerhoff, Landis, Johnson | SSEBE | ISTB4 |
| Avizo Fire software | Neithalath, Kavazanjian | SSEBE | ERC 4th floor |
| Eppendorft microcentrifuge | Westerhoff, Landis, Fox | SSEBE | ISTB4 |
| Autosampler for Dionex Ion Chromatograph | Johnson, Westerhoff, Abbaszadegan, Landis, Fox | SSEBE | ISTB4 |
| Luminescence spectrometer | Westerhoff, Abbaszadegan, Johnson, Fox, Landis | SSEBE | ISTB4 |
| Wireless Sensor network* | Z. Wang, Kaloush, Childers, Vivoni, Huang, Ruddell, Fraser | SSEBE | Open space on Tempe campus |
| Replacement computer for high-speed impact test system | Mobasher, Rajan, Neithalath, Attard | SSEBE | ISTB2 |
| Replacement high-speed data acquisition card (National Instruments PCI 6024E) for high-speed impact test system. | Mobasher, Attard, Rajan, Neithalath | SSEBE | ISTB2 |
| (2) high-speed Phantom cameras | Mobasher, Rajan, Neithalath, Mignolet | SSEBE | ISTB2 |
| CODE bright / GEOslope | Zapata, Houston | SSEBE | Geotech lab |
| Static load cell and flexural fixture | Chattopadhyay, Neithalath | SEMTE | ISTB2 |
| Commercial cross-flow pervaporation system | Lind, Nielsen, Lin, Rittman | SEMTE | EC E wing |
| Large format scanning probe DI3000 instrument | Sieradzki, Friesen, Peralta, Diaz, Chawla, Phelan, Buttry, Alford | SEMTE | ISTB4 |
*application only partially funded, additional information to be provided by ADR
