[Bnc-faculty-all-list] Birck Faculty Meeting - June 19, 10am, BRK 2001

[Shakouri, Ali]

Dear All,

Here is a link to the viewgraphs from Birck faculty meeting on June 19th:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tzw3pcpdrslrm48/BNC_Faculty%20June%202018.pdf?dl=0

I would like to thank great efforts by our faculty who brought record funding ($37M) and to the staff who, not only are doing an outstanding job in maintaining the facility (UPS upgrade, subfab renovation, etc.), but they worked diligently to install many new state-of-the-art equipment (JEOL ebeam writer, ion-mill, 45ft R2R manufacturing, LasX, and Microsoft tools). Several additional major equipment will be installed in the next 6-9 months (Themis TEM, FIB, cleanroom SEM, Heidelberg MLA, HDPCVD and PVD for nitrides and magnetics). Several faculty and staff played key role in writing external and internal proposals. I would like to thank Haiyan, Joerg, Dana, Vlad, Sasha, Ernesto as well as EVPRP and Associate Deans for Research for their great support.

One of our goals is to eliminate recharge centers’ subsidies (especially tools/services that are not typically subsidized in top nano centers). We have had great progress in reducing the overall subsidy and I am working with our staff scientists to eliminate the remaining ones. This will help us to use valuable internal resources to replace aging tools and to bring new capabilities to Purdue. If you have suggestions for new equipment, please send an email to Dana.

The construction of the Aspire apartment building in front of Birck has caused some disruption because of the vibration and noise. HDR (the company that designed and built Birck) did a detailed impact study. Thanks to the great efforts by Mark Voorhis, Justin Wirth, Ron Reger, Chris Gilpin, our staff scientists as well as Ron Reifenberger, Dave Janes, Cliff Wojtalewicz and Donna Brown, PRF changed the plans for the expansion of the McArthur Drive and the multi-story parking structure (they are moved outside 400ft radius). I would like to thank PRF’s Rich Michal and Brian Edelman for their great support and plans to build a high tech ecosystem in DP District benefiting from the synergy with outstanding research by our students and faculty.

I have summarized some recommendations from Birck Faculty Leadership Council that we hope to implement starting in August. To have a transformational change, faculty and staff should take ownership and be fully engaged. Please let Dana, Yong or I know if you have any suggestions or comments. Thanks in advance for your time.

Best regards,
Ali



On Jun 12, 2018, at 4:35 PM, Shakouri, Ali <shakouri at purdue.edu<mailto:shakouri at purdue.edu>> wrote:

Dear All,

Here is the agenda for the Birck Faculty meeting on Tuesday June 19 at 10am (BRK 2001). Please let us know if you would like to discuss any additional items. We look forward to see you next week.

If you can’t make it, we will be glad to meet separately. Jaime can help coordinate a meeting time.

Best regards,
Ali, Dana and Yong


Agenda Items:
•       Birck organization; Associate Directors
•       New staff/ roles
•       New laboratories and equipment
•       Process characterization / engineering excellence update
•       Transform Purdue
•       DP District construction impact
•       Financial update (new centers; subsidy goals)
•       Birck Faculty Leadership Council
•       Open faculty positions (lab space at Birck)
•       New equipment priorities
•       Discussion/ Q&A

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