ECE 557 EQUIPMENT & ACCESSORIES FLEX LAB CONSTRUCTION ITaP DATA OUTAGE SEMINAR STARTING AS A NEW USER IN BIRCK ECE 557 EQUIPMENT & ACCESSORIES A few critical items from the ECE 557 process bay have gone missing. Included in these was an aligner chuck and a wafer carrier. Please note that any and all items in the 557 bay are for the lab portion of that class and should be left in that bay. If items are missing then the students can't do their processing during assigned lab hours. Thanks for your cooperation. FLEX LAB CONSTRUCTION Flex Lab Construction will begin Monday April 4th in back of Birck for the new Flex lab. The parking in the back of Birck (gravel and paved) will be closed. The west and north lots will still be available for parking. There may be some vibration concerns, but construction will be in contact with management to let us know if there will be any issues. New Bicycle Paths and Parking: An upcoming project in Discovery Park to install a bicycle lane between BIND and Mann and on the northwest corner of BRK. This project was scheduled for installation in the Fall of 2015, but was rescheduled to the Spring of 2016. Purdue Grounds will be performing the excavation and Purdue Masons will install the lanes. PUPF construction team will co-ordinate the scheduling of the excavation activities and will provide routine updates on the plans for excavation with BNC building manager. Light construction work will start the week of March 21. Excavation and concrete work will begin as soon as weather permits. We plan on having this work complete by the end of July 2016. Let us know if you have any questions or concerns. Mark Voorhis and Mary Jo Totten ITaP DATA OUTAGE WORK TO BE PERFORMED: From 11:00 PM to 11:59 PM on Thursday, 3/31/16, the ITaP Data Networks Team will be performing scheduled work that may cause a disruption of data network services for some clients. AFFECTED CLIENTS: It is possible that no noticeable disruption of services will occur during this scheduled work however if a service disruption does occur, all clients and services that utilize an ITaP Data Center firewall context will experience that disruption. SCOPE OF WORK: It is possible that no clients will experience a noticeable service disruption but if such does occur, affected client(s) should plan to experience a couple of service disruptions during the scheduled outage window, each disruption lasting up to 5 minutes in duration. If you have any questions or concerns about this work please don't hesitate to let us know. Thanks much. Duane =============================== Duane Kyburz, Network Engineer Purdue University - ITaP, IT Infrastructure Services Data Networks Team Office: 765-496-8226 Mobile: 765-490-4755 Fax: 765-494-6620 Email: storm@purdue.edu<mailto:storm@purdue.edu> SEMINAR Dr. Yoshiro Yamada Recent advances in radiation thermometry standards and applications Monday, March 28th at 10:00 am in Birck 1001 For more information please visit: https://nanohub.org/groups/bnc/calendar/details/1448 Harold Sabbagh An Electrical Engineer Looks at Medicine and Biology Wednesday, March 30th at 6:00 pm in Birck 1001 For more information please visit: https://nanohub.org/groups/bnc/calendar/details/1449 STARTING AS A NEW USER IN BIRCK As a reminder, to become a user within the Birck Nanotechnology Center requires taking the introductory class, BNC 105; the fume hood safety class, BNC 150; and for cleanroom users the cleanroom/gowning training class, BNC 206. All have prerequisite work to be done prior to attending the classes. You can sign up for all three classes here: https://nanohub.org/groups/bnc/training