[BNC-all] BNC E-news for the week of September 30th

[Anthrop, Heather L]

Table of Contents:

-         Call for Nominations

-         Equipment Use and Coral Inquiries

-         Maintenance

-         Purchasing

-         Seminars

-         Training

**Call for Nominations**

Nominations for the 2013 IUPAP (International Union of Pure and Applied Physics) Young Scientists Prize in Quantum Electronics are now open. Please go to http://www.iupap.org/commissions/c10/page_55794.html for more information.

**Equipment Use and Coral Inquiries**

Please note that we use Coral to track equipment use, maintenance, downtime and development time.  It is very important that all users log out of Coral at the end of their process runs, which frees up the equipment for the next user.  On occasion, some users have forgotten to log out of Coral at the end of their runs, and this then shows the equipment still being used.  This blocks other prospective users from enabling the equipment, and over the long term this lowers income in the various recharge centers.  So please remember to log out of Coral at the conclusion of your process runs.  Also, please remember to direct all inquiries about Coral to coral at ecn.purdue.edu<mailto:coral at ecn.purdue.edu>.

Thanks very much for your attention to this.

Ron Reger

**Maintenance**
The Birck Nanotechnology Center will be undergoing a semi-annual preventive maintenance and service shutdown October 7 through October 11, 2013.  Air handling systems, exhaust systems, toxic gas delivery, and monitoring systems will be down beginning at 7 a.m. Monday, October 7 through 4 p.m. Friday, October 11.  The BNC staff will be performing appropriate preventive maintenance on the process equipment at this time as well.

All CLEANROOM research work will be suspended until the maintenance activities are completed and all systems are returned to normal.  No one will be allowed to enter the cleanroom during this time period.

In addition, the laboratory areas will also be affected by this systems maintenance.  As such, all LABORATORY activities that involve exhausted hoods, vacuum systems, and/or toxic gas systems will be down beginning 9 a.m. Monday, October 7 through 4 p.m. Friday, October 11.  However, work that involves taking standard electrical measurements may be carried out in the LABS provided that fluctuating air temperature and humidity do not affect the readings.  No chemical work will be allowed during this period.

It is anticipated that the building and process tool maintenance will be completed by the end of the day on Friday, October 11.  Please check Coral for equipment status and availability.

Due to the new lab expansion projects electrical outages are required that will mainly affect the office areas.  We will send out a notice with a date and time of the power outage when we have more detailed information from Physical Facilities.

For long term research planning please refer the following future dates for our future preventive maintenance shutdowns.


  *   Week of May 5, 2014 (Possible power outage of lab research tools)
  *   Week of October 13, 2014
  *   Week of May 4, 2015
  *   Week of October 12, 2015
  *   Week of May 2, 2016

Thank you for your cooperation and understanding during these important preventive maintenance shutdowns.

BNC Management

**Purchasing**
Friday, October 4th is the last day to place an order in SRM purchasing system. For any questions or concerns please interim Business Manager Donna Brown room1012.

**Seminars**
Tuesday, October 1st
Dr. Dennis Buss
A Forum on the Future of Electronics
Fowler Hall 10:30 am
https://nanohub.org/events/details/665


Thursday, October 3rd
Dr. Huidan (Whitney) Yu Seminar
ME room 1061 at 4:30 pm
https://engineering.purdue.edu/ME/AboutUs/Events/me-691-seminar7

**Training**

All,

This is reminder that the Engineering Business Offices are offering Concur Travel Labs every Thursday this semester from 1:30-3:30 in EE 207.  The labs are walk-in and are open to all Engineering faculty, staff, and students that need to travel.

Business Office Travel Clerks are available to walk you through the following:

*         Completing/Updating Profile Information

*         Booking Trips

*         Submitting Trip Requests

*         Preparing Expense Reports

*         To Answer Travel Questions


Thanks,
Brock Goodrick
Business Manager
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
College of Engineering
Purdue University
(765) 494-3397




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