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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext"> labnetwork-bounces@mtl.mit.edu [mailto:labnetwork-bounces@mtl.mit.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>John Shott<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, July 25, 2014 5:07 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Dennis Grimard; Ferraguto, Thomas<br>
<b>Cc:</b> labnetwork@mtl.mit.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [labnetwork] Benchmarking Survey<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">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>
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John<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 7/25/2014 11:28 AM, Dennis Grimard wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">I will be happy to participate ... <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">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?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Also, the fidelity of the data must be protected. What if you have someone causally "guessing" while another is fanatical about their data?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">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
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