Spring PM Shutdown - May 1, 2017 - May 5, 2017 The Birck Nanotechnology Center will be undergoing a semi-annual preventive maintenance and service shutdown May 1 through May 5, 2017. Air handling systems, exhaust systems, toxic gas delivery, and monitoring systems will be down beginning at 7 a.m. Monday, May 1 through 4 p.m. Friday, May 5. 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. Only authorized personnel 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 7 a.m. Monday, May 1 through 4 p.m. Friday, May 5. 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, May 5. Please check iLabs for equipment status and availability. For long-term research planning, please refer the following future dates for our future preventive maintenance shutdowns. Week of Oct 16, 2017 Week of April 30, 2018 Week of Oct 15, 2018 Week of April 29, 2019 Seminars/Workshops Bagwell Lecture 9th Edition - John Rogers, Northwestern University Tuesday, May 2nd 11:00am - 12:00 p.m. Burton Morgan room 121 http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/birck/events/index.php?view=2207 User Information Dear Birck Students, With the Preventive Maintenance shutdown next week the cleanroom will be closed for most of the week. Please take this opportunity to tidy up your Birck office space with your office mates. Discard trash, unused boxes, clutter, etc. Also, if you have small refrigerators or other appliances it would be a great time to clean them out and around them. Remember we conduct many tours here at Birck and we would like to continue to showcase not only our outstanding cleanroom and labs, but also our great graduate students and their office facilities. Thanks for your support in this! Awards and promotions. Purdue University's Board of Trustees approved faculty promotions. Effective August 14, 2017, except as noted. Congratulations! To Research Associate Professor Mykhailo Povolotskyi, research associate professor at Birck Nanotechnology Center (July 1) To Research Professor Kazuaki Yazawa, research professor at Birck Nanotechnology Center (July 1) To Associate Professor Peter Bermel, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering To Full Professor Zhihong Chen, professor of electrical and computer engineering Minghao Qi, professor of electrical and computer engineering Xiulin Ruan, professor of mechanical engineering Alumnus from Birck Nanotechnology Center - Baratunde "Bara" A. Cola at George Institute for Technology was awarded Alan T. Waterman Award which is the nation's highest honor for early career scientists and engineers. This marks only the second time in the award's 42-year history that NSF selected two recipients in the same year. Link: https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=191610 Congratulations to the 2017 College of Engineering Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award - Mikhail Shalaginov, Ph.D. candidate, Research assistant.