Hi, all
We're foolishly thinking about resubmitting our CCLI for an NMR here at JSD, and was wondering if any of you had any knowledge or experience regarding the description of NMR useage? Normally, at a big school, they have 24/7 use expectations, and they also have excellent computer records of who used what when. We have.....bupkus. People just use it as they please. Have any of you run into this, and if so, how do you estimate useage? Do you assume 8 hour or 24 hour days (since we don't expect our students to work at night when we are here, unlike our kindly mentors in grad school)?
Also, on another note, do any of you have an instrument technician, or does this fall to the faculty?
Finally, if anyone has any experience or suggestions on CCLIs for NMRs, please don't feel that you need to leave to us the valuable learning experience of acquiring such knowledge the hard way....do tell (:
-Scott
We use Yahoo calendar during the summer to reserve and log time (informally at least.) During the academic year, we don't keep track of hours since we usually don't need. If I know I will have a long/overnight/VT run, I inform the major users informally.
We also have no technician, so faculty are in charge. I am about 4th on the totem pole, so have only been involved in 2 He fills in 9 years.
Finally, I have no advice on the CCLI grant, except I am happy (again) to be listed as a co-user like last time.
Adam
I also highly recommend the MRI program. In the past few years, we've been successful in obtaining a confocal microscope and TGA-MS system. It has been many years since we've written an NMR proposal.
Don't forget that you can submit MRIs as a RUI proposals and include the RUI impact statement. We've used this space to "educate reviewers" about the mission of PUIs. (I don't know if this can be done for CCLI proposals).
As for logs - I have no idea what the NMR usage assumptions are because I don't use one. When I wrote an XRD grant (IMR - probably not applicable for the NMR) - I went and discussed the usage stats during the academic year and summer months separately. I stressed how the instrument would be incorporated into both classwork & teaching and discussed the research = teaching mentality.
We've been using Microsoft Outlook Web Access to keep track of usage time on the NMR. It's a simple system and easy to use both on campus and remotely. I've begun using this to keep track of XRD stats. It's a handy tool for both usage and other instrument issues.