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APPENDIX A
Charge to the Committee
The proposer! study will review the state of small and mic3-sized multi-user facilities within the materials
research complex in the United States and will consider methods for optimizing the use of existing
resources, including the consideration of structural strategies anti actions to provide services more
efficiently through the implementation of revenue-neutral solutions. These facilities are recognized as a
key feature of materials research, yet there is concern that they are not being optimally developed or
utilized and that new opportunities for scientific development are not being properly pursued. Although
the study will confine its recommendations to university anci national laboratory facilities, it will also
examine the operations of materials facilities in the commercial sector and in the international arena.
Specifically, the stu(ly's task will incorporate the following elements:
1. Providing a definition of small and mid-sized multi-user facilities and their role in the materials
research complex.
Collecting data on the usage, costs and structure of smaller facilities and compiling an inventory
of small equipment clusters.
3. Examining the current moclels of facility operation and assessing their cost/effectiveness,
considering the appropriate metrics for facility success, anci assessing criteria for minimal size.
Exploring alternate methods of instrumentation utilization such as:
a. Increasing user groups at small facilities to 10-20 indepen(lent investigators.
b. Establishing regional centers by identifying equipment appropriate for consolidation into
multi-user shared facilities.
5. Examining opportunities for instrumentation research in the context of facilities, including the
impact of these on science anti industry and the determination of the optimal location of
instrumentation development activities.
6. Assessing the educational role played by small facilities.
7. Exploring the need for long-range support models for these facilities.
8. Assessing the effect, if any, of the policies and structure of the federal research agencies that
support smaller facilities.
9. Analyzing the issues from an international perspective.
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Representative terms from entire chapter:
research complex
