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Thomas:<br>
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I certainly agree with Dennis' cautions about trying to get a good
apples-apples comparison and I recall how hard he and his team
worked to do his UGIM benchmarking study of a few years ago.
However, I think that one of the most important questions on your
list is the one titled "subsidy". I believe that virtually all of
us get some form of subsidy from our institutions. As the same
time, I believe that a number of us are frequently under pressure to
reduce that subsidy based on what I believe to be a common
misconception that a number of other labs breakeven with
little-to-no subsidy.<br>
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I certainly believe that one of the benefits of such a survey would
be to get a better understanding of the range and magnitude of
subsidy that various labs receive. In particular, my belief is that
smaller labs require a more significant subsidy, percentage-wise, in
order to make ends meet ... but that's only a hunch and not based on
real data. Capturing good information about subsidies is made
harder, I believe, by the fact that many subsidies are not in the
form of a "direct payment" in the way that user fees are, but often
take the form of things that ultimately show up on someone else's
expenditure statement and, as a result, are more easily overlooked.<br>
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All that aside, I'd be happy to help in any way that I can.<br>
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Have a good weekend,<br>
<br>
John<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/25/2014 11:28 AM, Dennis Grimard
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I will be happy to participate ... </div>
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However, I would caution you that the questions must be vetted
properly. For example if you ask for the staff size ... there
are many other questions that must be asked to assure that you
are not comparing apples to oranges. For example, if the Lab
is "mostly" a clean room with the "typical" tool set for MEMS,
photonics, NEMS, etc then what if one of the respondents has a
combination of these tools and metrology tools in addition?.
Comparing those two labs will give you completely wrong
answers. What about the size of the lab from hours used, to
tools, to type of tools, to footprint, to number of faculty,
to the size of the graduate program?</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans
ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">Also, the fidelity of the data
must be protected. What if you have someone causally
"guessing" while another is fanatical about their data?</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans
ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">I think that if the data are
not "interrogated" by such things as follow-up phone calls or
person to person visits ... you will have a bit of a problem
selling that the foundation of the data are sound.</div>
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