Although I do not know who the students are (John, I could not
find an attachment to your email) and this impacts my students probably more
than anyone else’s, I have a somewhat different approach than Eric’s. In my
opinion, when something reaches epidemic proportions, there may be a deeper
reason. I am not sure what the reason is, but I think we need to find out.
I personally would like to volunteer to talk to the students and
find out what is going on. Either something in the system is not working (I
doubt it but we need to consider it) or students are irresponsible (the second
and most likely possibility). Either way, I think we can find out. In the first
case we can probably fix things. In the second case, I would follow Eric’s approach,
as we should not tolerate abuse.
If you agree, maybe a small sub-committee (I could be part of
it) could talk individually to students next week to identify the problem and
also deliver a strong warning to them that they are forcing BNC to take action
against them.
Best,
Dimitri
___________________________________________________
Dimitrios Peroulis
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering/Mechanical
Engineering
Purdue University
Birck Nanotechnology Center Room 2266
1205 West State Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907
tel: (765) 494-3491
fax: (765) 496-6443
email: dperouli@purdue.edu
From:
bnc-faculty-all-list-bounces@ecn.purdue.edu
[mailto:bnc-faculty-all-list-bounces@ecn.purdue.edu] On Behalf Of Eric
Stach
Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 9:19 PM
To: Jeff Goecker; Weaver, John R
Cc: Dmitri Zakharov; BNC Faculty
Subject: Re: [Bnc-faculty-all-list] Coral Reservation Abuse - ACTION
REQUESTED - on behalf of John Weaver
John & Colleagues:
The answer to this is very, very simple. That user
should have had their user privileges revoked somewhere between 3-5 of these
events. It is a privilege to access equipment, not a right.
I say this based on now ∼20
yrs of working in electron microscopy labs: you don't show up, you lose your
privilege to use the equipment.
Eric
(yes: I don't work at BNC anymore, but this would have NEVER
been OK in my labs there.)
On Aug 27, 2010, at 5:09 PM, Jeff Goecker wrote:
BNC
Faculty –
I
need your help on a situation that is impacting the ability of researchers to
use the BNC equipment. We are beginning to reach epidemic proportions of
people reserving equipment and not using the equipment – and not cancelling
their reservations so that someone else can use that equipment. This
practice causes false bottlenecks and leaves the equipment unused. In the
first 8 weeks of this fiscal year, we have had 1165 incidents.
An
example is one user who has 20 unused and not canceled reservations on the
MJB-3 aligner in 8 weeks – that’s 2 ½ unused reservations every week.
This is a very highly used piece of equipment, and we are receiving complaints
that this equipment is not available. This same user has 12 unused and
not canceled reservations on the CHA evaporator – another critical piece of
equipment.
The
CHA evaporator has had 82 unused and not canceled reservations in the last 8
weeks, more than 10 per week.
Please
ask your students to be more courteous to the other researchers in the
BNC. The attached spreadsheet shows those users with at least 8 unused
and not cancelled reservations in the past 8 weeks by Coral user name. I
have also highlighted incidents where one user had at least 8 unused and not
cancelled reservations on a particular piece of equipment.
While
it is understood that there are legitimate incidents where a user reserves a
piece of equipment but cannot use it, this happening at a very high frequency
is more likely abuse.
Thanking
you for your consideration,
John
John R.
Weaver
Facility
Manager
Birck
Nanotechnology Center
Purdue
University
(765)
494-5494
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