<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:x="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)">
<!--[if !mso]><style>v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
.shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
</style><![endif]--><style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Tahoma;
panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:purple;
text-decoration:underline;}
p.MsoAcetate, li.MsoAcetate, div.MsoAcetate
{mso-style-priority:99;
mso-style-link:"Balloon Text Char";
margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";}
span.EmailStyle17
{mso-style-type:personal-compose;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:windowtext;}
span.BalloonTextChar
{mso-style-name:"Balloon Text Char";
mso-style-priority:99;
mso-style-link:"Balloon Text";
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";}
@page WordSection1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
/* List Definitions */
@list l0
{mso-list-id:43991309;
mso-list-type:hybrid;
mso-list-template-ids:-1747788916 67698703 67698713 67698715 67698703 67698713 67698715 67698703 67698713 67698715;}
@list l0:level1
{mso-level-tab-stop:none;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-.25in;}
@list l0:level2
{mso-level-number-format:alpha-lower;
mso-level-tab-stop:none;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-.25in;}
@list l0:level3
{mso-level-number-format:roman-lower;
mso-level-tab-stop:none;
mso-level-number-position:right;
text-indent:-9.0pt;}
@list l0:level4
{mso-level-tab-stop:none;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-.25in;}
@list l0:level5
{mso-level-number-format:alpha-lower;
mso-level-tab-stop:none;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-.25in;}
@list l0:level6
{mso-level-number-format:roman-lower;
mso-level-tab-stop:none;
mso-level-number-position:right;
text-indent:-9.0pt;}
@list l0:level7
{mso-level-tab-stop:none;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-.25in;}
@list l0:level8
{mso-level-number-format:alpha-lower;
mso-level-tab-stop:none;
mso-level-number-position:left;
text-indent:-.25in;}
@list l0:level9
{mso-level-number-format:roman-lower;
mso-level-tab-stop:none;
mso-level-number-position:right;
text-indent:-9.0pt;}
ol
{margin-bottom:0in;}
ul
{margin-bottom:0in;}
--></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]-->
</head>
<body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple">
<div class="WordSection1">
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">In preparation for UGIM 2016 in Salt Lake City, Ian Harvey requested that we get a team to together to gather information on the UGIM Community. We ask UGIM Lab Directors/Managers
to participate in the survey attached (to be completed by January 29<sup>th</sup> 2016).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Problem Statement:
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">To better understand how a University Nano/Micro Fabrication Facility can survive and thrive in today’s economy the UGIM Team have authored Part 1 of a survey to gather
information from as many Universities that wish to participate to be presented at UGIM 2016 Utah. The goal is to provide a comprehensive snap shot of multiple UGIM members (financially and operationally) for all the labs to benefit from<b>.
</b>In addition to the presentation to be made at the UGIM Symposium 2016 Utah, the goal is to continue to grow the survey process and feed that information back to the UGIM participants periodically.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Framework:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<ol style="margin-top:0in" start="1" type="1">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Any data and analysis of the survey results made publicly available will not have institutions identified. However, we will need your
contact information for communication in regard to Part 2 of the survey. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The survey needs to be as simple as possible to encourage participation<o:p></o:p></span>
<ol style="margin-top:0in" start="1" type="a">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Part 1 will be focused on Categorization and may help us parse down the data set for Part 2. The first level survey will set help guide
us to Part 2.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Part 2 will be more detailed analysis and have more granularity on budget, funding sources and other topics to be determined.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">We will utilize Survey Monkey as a tool to gather data<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">UGIM 2016 is NOT the end game, but a beginning of a longer effort to continue gathering and sharing information. The hope is that UGIM
2016 will spur increased participation in such activity.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.25in;mso-add-space:auto">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-add-space:auto">
<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">The Survey Link:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-add-space:auto">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in;mso-add-space:auto">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.surveymonkey.com_r_96BFZZP&d=CwMFaQ&c=lqHimbpwJeF7VTDNof4ddnO1LTp7jTaMHJ2UAxZwrfY&r=Nr-bN4Md6RTcDsx-pCbyQFkpRpOBT-uDXKAUJUpg_zc&m=x_JqxjZCXnUZsUABOf3HmvTbmXd4LZpvGb3QtnwBw7g&s=F2qmkpe0z6JDRAGqEEcrr0vRzU2wzWiykGsMgHH-Dao&e=" target="_blank"><font color="red"><b>The MTL Mail Server has detected a possible fraud attempt from "urldefense.proofpoint.com" claiming to be</b></font> <span style="color:blue">https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/96BFZZP</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:.5in;mso-add-space:auto">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Questions and comments and be forwarded directly to
</span></b><a href="mailto:Thomas_ferraguto@uml.edu"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue">Thomas_ferraguto@uml.edu</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> 978-934-1809<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Best Regards<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Tom Ferraguto<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Team:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> Thomas Ferraguto- UMass Lowell, Sandrine Martin – U Michigan, Noah Clay- U Penn, Robert Cornwall -Penn State, Dennis
Grimard- MIT, Robert Hower- U Michigan & Vito Logiudice-U Waterloo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Note:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> Special thanks to Sandrine Martin for her extra efforts in putting the teams ideas into a usable survey.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thomas S. Ferraguto<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Saab ETIC Nanofabrication Laboratory Director<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">University of Massachusetts Lowell<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1 University Avenue<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Lowell MA 01854-5120<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">978-934-1809 land<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">617-755-0910 mobile<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">978-934-1014 fax<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><img border="0" width="358" height="228" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D12E97.00F71FF0"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>