Midsize Facilities: The Infrastructure for Materials Research (2006)

To better inform its deliberations, the Committee on Smaller Facilities (COSF) determined that a pair of questionnaires should be distributed broadly to the community. One questionnaire solicited feedback from facility managers, the other from facility users. Because of biases introduced by the self-selected population that responded to the questionnaire, the committee does not believe that these results are statistically significant; rather, they are intended to give a flavor of the population. The questionnaires are reproduced in this appendix.

FIGURE C.1 Sites in the continental United States targeted for dissemination of the committee’s facilities’ and users’ questionnaire.

The questionnaires were distributed to the community (see Figure C.1) by a variety of techniques:

• Direct e-mail to facilities identified by committee members and staff, as indicated below in the list of 275 facilities;

• Electronic posting on the committee’s public Web site;

• Paper distribution at the American Physical Society’s March 2004 meeting in Montreal, Canada, and the Materials Research Society’s April 2004 meeting in San Francisco, California; and

• E-mail solicitation to subscribed members of the American Physical Society’s Division of Materials Physics and Division of Condensed Matter Physics.

Following is the list of facilities specifically targeted to receive the facilities’ and users’ questionnaires by direct e-mail solicitation.

1. Active Materials Laboratory, University of California at Los Angeles

2. Advanced Analysis Facility, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee

3. Advanced Coatings and Surface Engineering Laboratory, Colorado School of Mines

4. Advanced Materials Characterization Laboratory, State University of New York at Stony Brook

5. Advanced Materials Processing and Analysis Center, University of Central Florida

6. Advanced Materials Research Center, University of Florida

7. Alabama Microelectronics Science and Technology Center, Auburn University

8. Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University

9. Analytic Instrumentation Facility, North Carolina State University

10. Atomic Resolution Electron Microscopy Center, North Carolina State University

11. Australian Key Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, University of Sydney

12. Basic Plasma Science Facility, University of California at Los Angeles

13. Biofilm Research Center, Stanford University

14. Biological and Biomaterials Preparation, Imaging, and Characterization Laboratory, University of Wisconsin at Madison

15. Biological Imaging Resource Center, California Institute of Technology

16. Biological Science Division Core Facilities, University of Chicago

17. Biology Imaging Center, University of California at San Diego

18. Biomolecular Research Facility, University of Virginia Health System

19. Butler Polymer Laboratory, University of Florida

20. California Nanosystems Institute, University of California at Los Angeles

21. Campus Chemical Instrumentation Center, Ohio State University

22. Campus Microscopy and Imaging Facility, Ohio State University

23. Carnegie Mellon Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Carnegie Mellon University

24. Center for Accelerated Maturation of Materials, Ohio State University

25. Center for Adaptive Optics, University of California at Santa Cruz

26. Center for Advanced Electron Microscopy, Brookhaven National Laboratory

27. Center for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Lehigh University

28. Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures, North Carolina State University

29. Center for Advanced Materials Immiscible Polymer Processing, Rutgers University

30. Center for Advanced Materials Processing, Clarkson University

31. Center for Advanced Materials Research, Brown University

32. Center for Advanced Polymer and Composite Engineering, Ohio State University

33. Center for Advanced Thin Film Technology, State University of New York at Albany

34. Center for Applied Isotope Studies, University of Georgia

35. Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology, Rice University

36. Center for Biologically Inspired Materials and Materials Systems, Duke University

37. Center for Biologically Inspired Nanocomposite Materials, University of California at Santa Barbara

38. Center for Composite Materials, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee

39. Center for Composite Materials, University of Delaware

40. Center for Composite Materials, University of Southern California

41. Center for Computational Chemistry, University of Georgia

42. Center for Computational Materials Science, Georgia Institute of Technology

43. Center for Electrochemical Science and Engineering, University of Virginia

44. Center for Electron Microscope and Microanalysis, University of Southern California

45. Center for Electronic Materials, Devices and Systems, Texas A&M University

46. Center for Electronic Materials and Devices, San Jose State University

47. Center for Excellence in Nanoelectronics, State University of New York at Albany

48. Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory

49. Center for High Resolution Electron Microscopy, Arizona State University

50. Center for High Technology Materials, University of New Mexico

51. Center for High-Resolution Neutron Scatter, National Institute of Standards and Technology

52. Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Sandia National Laboratories

53. Center for Interface and Materials Science, University of California at San Diego

54. Center for Magnetic Recording Research, University of California at San Diego

55. Center for Materials Chemistry, University of Houston

56. Center for Materials for Information Technology, University of Alabama

57. Center for Materials Processing, University of Tennessee at Knoxville

58. Center for Materials Research, Ohio State University

59. Center for Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

60. Center for Materials Simulation, University of Connecticut

61. Center for Micro Analysis and Reaction Chemistry, University of Utah

62. Center for Micro and Nano Processing, Case Western Reserve University

63. Center for Microelectronic Materials and Structures, Yale University

64. Center for Micro-engineered Materials, University of New Mexico

65. Center for Micromagnetics and Information Storage Technologies, University of Minnesota

66. Center for Molecular and Atomic Studies at Surfaces, Vanderbilt University

67. Center for Nanophase Materials Science, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

68. Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory

69. Center for Nanoscale Science, Pennsylvania State University

70. Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Rice University

71. Center for Nanoscience and Technology, University of Notre Dame

72. Center for Nanoscopic Materials Design, University of Virginia

73. Center for Nanostructured Materials, Columbia University

74. Center for Nanotechnology, University of Wisconsin at Madison

75. Center for NMR Spectroscopy, Washington State University

76. Center for Polymer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University

77. Center for Polymer Studies, Boston University

78. Center for Research at the Bio/Nano Interface, University of Florida

79. Center for Response-Driven Polymeric Films, University of Southern Mississippi

80. Center for Self-Assembled Nanostructures and Devices, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

81. Center for Semiconductor Physics in Nanostructures, University of Arkansas and University of Oklahoma

82. Center for Sensor Materials, Michigan State University

83. Center for Solid State Electronics Research, Arizona State University

84. Center for Structural Biology, Vanderbilt University

85. Center for Surface Analysis of Materials, Case Western Reserve University

86. Center for the Science and Engineering of Materials, California Institute of Technology

87. Center for Thermal Spray Research, State University of New York at Stony Brook

88. Center for Ultrafast Optical Science, University of Michigan

89. Center of Excellence in Polymer Science and Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology

90. Center on Hierarchical Structures, Case Western Reserve University

91. Center on Polymeric Interfaces and Macromolecular Assemblies, Stanford University

92. Central Analytical Facility, University of Alabama

93. Ceramic Materials Laboratory, Princeton University

94. Certificate Program in Microscopy, San Joaquin Delta College

95. Chemistry Magnetic Resonance Facility; X-ray Crystallography Facility, University of California at San Diego

96. Chicago Materials Research Center, University of Chicago

97. Colorado Advanced Materials Institute, Colorado School of Mines

98. Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia

99. Composite Materials and Structures Center, Michigan State University

100. Composites Education and Research Center, Georgia Institute of Technology

101. Compound Semiconductor Device Laboratory, Simon Fraser University

102. Compound Semiconductor Laboratory, University of Southern California

103. Computing Recharge Facility, University of California at San Diego

104. Cornell Center for Materials Research, Cornell University

105. Cornell High-Energy Synchrotron Source, Cornell University

106. Data Storage Systems Center, Carnegie Mellon University

107. Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota

108. Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Binghamton

109. Department of Chemistry, Syracuse University

110. Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester

111. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Lehigh University

112. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pittsburgh

113. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California at San Diego

114. E-Beam Facility, University of California at San Diego

115. Electron Microprobe Laboratory, Yale University

116. Electron Microscope and X-Ray Diffraction Facilities, Michigan State University

117. Electron Microscope Facility, University of California at San Diego

118. Electron Microscope Unit, University of New South Wales

119. Electron Microscopy and Microanalysis, University of Oxford

120. Electron Microscopy Center, University of South Carolina

121. Electron Microscopy Center, Washington State University

122. Electron Microscopy Center; Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Georgia Institute of Technology

123. Electron Microscopy Facility, University of Texas at Austin

124. Electron Spin Resonance, University of California at San Diego

125. Electronic Materials Synthesis and Plasma Processing Laboratory, University of California at Los Angeles

126. Electronic-Photonic Materials Group, University of Toronto

127. Engineering Research Center for Advanced Electronic Materials Processing, North Carolina State University

128. Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Materials Research Center, University of Colorado at Boulder

129. Fluid Dynamics Research Center, Illinois Institute of Technology

130. Free-Electron Laser Center, Vanderbilt University

131. Free-Electron Laser Laboratory, Duke University

132. Garcia Materials Research Science and Engineering Center-Polymers at Engineered Interfaces, State University of New York at Stony Brook

133. Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution

134. Goldwater Materials Visualization Facility, Arizona State University

135. Harvard Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Harvard University

136. Hatch Magnetic Resonance Research Center, Columbia University

137. Helium Recharge Facility, University of California at San Diego

138. High Density Electronics Center, University of Arkansas

139. High Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory

140. Highly Filled Materials Institute, Stevens Institute of Technology

141. Institute for Biological Research and Technology, University of South Carolina

142. Institute for Materials Research, State University of New York at Binghamton

143. Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland

144. Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut

145. Institute of Nanoscience and Engineering, University of Pittsburgh

146. Integrated Microelectronics Laboratory, Brigham Young University

147. Integrated Technologies Laboratory, University of California at San Diego

148. Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research, University of Florida

149. Ion Beam Laboratory, State University of New York at Albany

150. Jack Maddox Laboratory, Texas Tech University

151. Johns Hopkins Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Johns Hopkins University

152. Keck Bioimaging Laboratory, Arizona State University

153. Keck Center for the Design of Nanoscale Materials for Molecular Recognition, Howard University

154. Laboratory for Electronic Materials and Device Technology, University of Alabama

155. Laboratory for Micro and Nanotechnology, Paul Scherrer Institute

156. Laboratory for Nanometer Scale Engineering, Boston University

157. Laboratory for Nanostructured Materials Research, Rutgers University

158. Laboratory for Plasma Processing of Materials, University of Maryland at College Park

159. Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter, University of Pennsylvania

160. Laboratory for Surface Studies, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee

161. Life Sciences Electron Microscopy Facility, Arizona State University

162. Lizzadro Magnetic Resonance Research Center, University of Notre Dame

163. Long Island Laboratory for Crystal Growth, State University of New York at Stony Brook

164. Los Alamos Center for Materials Science, Los Alamos National Laboratory

165. Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy Facility, University of Chicago

166. Major Analytical Instrumentation Center, University of Florida

167. Maryland Infrared Free Electron Laser, University of Maryland at College Park

168. Mass Spectrometry Facility, University of Notre Dame

169. Mass Spectrometry Resource Center, California Institute of Technology

170. Mass Spectrometry Resource for Biology and Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine

171. Materials Analysis User Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

172. Materials and Process Simulation Center, California Institute of Technology

173. Materials Characterization Facility, University of Houston

174. Materials Characterization Laboratory, State University of New York at Stony Brook

175. Materials Research Center, University of Missouri-Rolla

176. Materials Research Laboratory, University of California at Santa Barbara

177. Materials Science Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

178. Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart

179. Medical School Electron Microscope Facility, University of Wisconsin at Madison

180. Metals-Processing Laboratory Users Program, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

181. Michigan Ion Beam Laboratory for Surface Modification and Analysis, University of Michigan

182. Micro Fabrication Laboratory, University of Missouri at Columbia

183. Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) Laboratory, Carnegie Mellon University

184. Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) Laboratory, University of California at Los Angeles

185. Microelectronics and Nanotechnology Research Laboratory, Purdue University

186. Microelectronics Fabrication Laboratory, Carleton University

187. Microelectronics Research Center, Georgia Institute of Technology

188. Microelectronics Research Center, Iowa State University

189. Microelectronics Research Center, New Jersey Institute of Technology

190. Microelectronics Research Center, University of Texas at Austin

191. Microfabrication Facility, University of California at Davis

192. Microfabrication Facility, University of Pennsylvania

193. Microfabrication Laboratory, Case Western Reserve University

194. Microfabritech, University of Florida

195. Micromachine and Nanofabrication Facility, University of Alberta

196. Micromanufacturing Laboratory, University of California at Los Angeles

197. Microscopy and Imaging Resource, University of Wisconsin at Madison

198. Microscopy Resource, University of Wisconsin at Madison

199. Microstructure Laboratory, University of Wuerzburg

200. Microsystems Laboratory, University of California at Los Angeles

201. Microtechnology Laboratory, University of Louisville

202. Microtechnology-Based Energy, Chemical and Biological Systems, Oregon State University

203. Microwave Processing Laboratory for Advanced Materials, University of Maryland at College Park

204. Molecular Biosensor and Imaging Center, Carnegie Mellon University

205. Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

206. Molecular Materials Research Center, California Institute of Technology

207. Molecular Resource Center, University of Tennessee at Knoxville

208. Nanoelectronics Laboratory, University of Cincinnati

209. Nanoelectronics Research Facility, University of California at Los Angeles

210. Nanofab, University of Texas at Arlington

211. Nanofabrication Facility, Carnegie Mellon University

212. Nanoscale Solid and Molecular Structures Laboratory, Colorado School of Mines

213. Nanoscience and Technology Center, University of Central Florida

214. Nanostructures Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

215. Nanostructures Laboratory, Princeton University

216. Nanotech, University of California at Santa Barbara

217. NanoTech Institute, University of Texas at Dallas

218. National Center for Microgravity Research, Case Western Reserve University

219. National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research, University of California at San Diego

220. National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University

221. National Magnetic Resonance Facility, University of Wisconsin at Madison

222. National Nanofabrication User Network (NNUN), Howard University

223. National Nanofabrication User Network (NNUN), Pennsylvania State University

224. National Resource for Automated Molecular Microscopy, Scripps Research Institute

225. New Jersey Center for Biomaterials, Rutgers University, New Jersey Institute of Technology, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

226. New Jersey Institute of Technology, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

227. New York Structural Biology Center, Consortium of New York Universities

228. North Carolina Center for Nanoscale Materials, University of North Carolina

229. Northwestern University Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Northwestern University

230. NSF Center for Low-Cost, High-Speed Polymer Composites, Michigan State University

231. NSF Center for Molecular and Microstructure of Composites, Case Western Reserve University

232. Nuclear Radiation Center, Washington State University

233. Optical Analysis Facility, University of Alabama

234. Optoelectronics Technology Center, University of California at Santa Barbara

235. Particle Beam Physics Laboratory, University of California at Los Angeles

236. Pittsburgh NMR Center for Biomedical Research, Carnegie Mellon University

237. Plasma Applications Laboratory, University of Texas at Dallas

238. Princeton Center for Complex Materials, Princeton University

239. Quantitative Microscopy Laboratory, University of California at San Diego

240. Radiation Center, Oregon State University

241. Resource Center for Advanced Characterization and Metrology, State University of New York at Albany

242. Resource for Biomedical and Bio-organic Mass Spectrometry, Washington University

243. Resource for the Visualization of Biological Complexity, N.Y. State Department of Health; Wadsworth Center

244. Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope, Brookhaven National Laboratory

245. School of Engineering, Alfred University

246. Sealy Center for Structural Biology, University of Texas at Galveston

247. Shared Materials Instrumentation Facility, Duke University

248. Shared Research Equipment User Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

249. Silicon Wafer Engineering and Defect Science Center, North Carolina State University

250. Silvio O Conte National Center for Polymer Research, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

251. Solid State Electronics Laboratory, University of Michigan

252. Southwestern Biomedical Magnetic Resonance Facility, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

253. Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota

254. Surface Analysis Facility, University of Notre Dame

255. Surface Analysis Facility, University of Texas at Austin

256. Surface Analysis Laboratory, University of Alabama

257. Surface Science Center, University of Virginia

258. Synchrotron Radiation Center, University of Wisconsin at Madison

259. Texas Center for Superconductivity and Advanced Materials, University of Houston

260. The Photonics Center, Boston University

261. Thermal Analysis Center, University of Minnesota

262. Thermal Processing Technology Center, Illinois Institute of Technology

263. Three-Dimensional Electron Microscopy of Cells, University of Colorado

264. Three-Dimensional Electron Microscopy of Macromolecules, Baylor Medical College

265. University of Maryland Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, University of Maryland at College Park

266. University of Massachusetts Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

267. University of Minnesota Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, University of Minnesota

268. University of Nebraska Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, University of Nebraska at Lincoln

269. University of Wisconsin Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin at Madison

270. USC Nanocenter, University of South Carolina

271. Vanderbilt Institute for Nanoscale Science and Engineering, Vanderbilt University

272. W.M. Keck Center for Microelectronics, Syracuse University

273. W.M. Keck Laboratory for Biological Imaging, University of Wisconsin at Madison

274. X-Ray Crystallography Center, Caltech

275. X-Ray Physics Facility, Columbia University

Responses to the facility users’ and facility managers’ questionnaires were received by e-mail, postal mail, and fax and were entered into a small database for organization and primitive analysis. The following 10 facility users and 65 facility managers responded to the committee’s questionnaires:

1. Campus Microscopy and Imaging Facility, Ohio State University

2. Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

3. Center for Advanced Imaging and Micromanipulation, University of Pennsylvania, Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter

4. Center for Advanced Materials Research, Central Electron Microscope Facility, Brown University

5. Center for Advanced Materials Research, Central Microelectronics Facility, Brown University

6. Center for Advanced Microgravity Materials Processing, Northeastern University

7. Center for Composite Materials, University of Delaware

8. Center for Imaging and Mesoscale Structures, Harvard University

9. Center for Materials Research and Analysis, Central Facility for Crystallography, University of Nebraska at Lincoln

10. Center for Materials Research and Analysis, Central Facility for Electron Microscopy, University of Nebraska at Lincoln

11. Center for Materials Research and Analysis, Central Facility for Materials Preparation, University of Nebraska at Lincoln

12. Center for Materials Research and Analysis, Central Facility for Metallurgical and Mechanical Characterization, University of Nebraska at Lincoln

13. Center for Materials Research and Analysis, Central Facility for X-Ray Materials Characterization, University of Nebraska at Lincoln

14. Center for Materials Research and Analysis, Scanning Probe Microscopy, University of Nebraska at Lincoln

15. Center for Materials Science and Engineering Shared Experimental Facilities, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

16. Center for Microanalysis of Materials, Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

17. Center for Nanoscale Systems, Cornell University

18. Center for Response-Driven Polymeric Films, University of Southern Mississippi

19. Center for Solid State Electronics Research, Arizona State University

20. Center for Thermal Spray Research, State University of New York at Stony Brook

21. Chicago Materials Research Center, University of Chicago

22. Colorado Advanced Materials Institute, Colorado School of Mines

23. Columbia Materials Research Science and Engineering Center Shared Instrument Facility, Columbia University

24. Composite Materials and Structures Center, Michigan State University

25. Cornell Center for Materials Research Shared Experimental Facilities, Cornell University

26. Cornell High-Energy Synchrotron Source, Cornell University

27. Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California at Irvine

28. Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University

29. Department of Materials Science, Washington State University

30. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, State University of New York at Stony Brook

31. Department of Physics, Colgate University

32. Department of Physics, University of Delaware

33. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University

34. Electron Microscope Unit, University of New South Wales, Australia

35. Electron Microscopy Center, Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory

36. Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Materials Research Center, Shared X-Ray Diffraction Facility, University of Colorado at Boulder

37. High Temperature Materials Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

38. Institute of Technology Characterization Facility, University of Minnesota

39. Intense Pulsed Neutron Source, Argonne National Laboratory

40. Interfacial and Nanoscale Science Facility, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

41. J.B. Cohen X-ray Diffraction Facility, Northwestern University

42. J. Earle and Mary Roberts Materials Characterization Laboratory, Carnegie Mellon University

43. Johns Hopkins Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Johns Hopkins University

44. Keck Microfabrication Facility, Michigan State University

45. Lizzadro Magnetic Resonance Research Center, University of Notre Dame

46. Major Analytic Instrumentation Center, University of Florida

47. Materials Characterization Facility, University of Central Florida

48. Materials Characterization Laboratory of the Materials Research Institute, Pennsylvania State University

49. Microfabrication Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley

50. Microfabrication Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, School of Electrical Engineering

51. Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, University of Maryland at College Park

52. Nanoscale Surface Characterization Facility, Washington State University

53. Nanostructures Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

54. Nanotechnology User Facility at the Center for Nanotechnology, University of Washington at Seattle

55. National Center for Electron Microscopy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

56. National ESCA and Surface Analysis Center for Biomedical Problems, University of Washington at Seattle

57. National High Magnetic Field Facility, Florida State University, Los Alamos National Laboratory, University of Florida

58. National Magnetic Resonance Facility, University of Wisconsin at Madison

59. New York Structural Biology Center, Consortium of New York Universities

60. NIST Center for High Resolution Neutron Scattering, National Institute of Standards and Technology

61. Northwestern University Atomic and Nanoscale Characterization Experimental Center, Northwestern University

62. Optical Analysis Facility, University of Alabama

63. Oregon State University Radiation Center, Oregon State University

64. Pennsylvania Regional Nanotechnology Facility, Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Materials, University of Pennsylvania

65. Princeton Center for Complex Materials Shared Experimental Facilities Imaging and Analysis Center, Princeton University

66. Quantum Design Physical Property Measurement System, University of Pennsylvania

67. Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

68. Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope User Facility, Brookhaven National Laboratory

69. Shared Equipment Authority, Rice University

70. Shared Experimental Facilities of the University of Massachusetts Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

71. Shared Materials Instrumentation Facility, Duke University

72. Shared Research Equipment User Center (SHaRE), Oak Ridge National Laboratory

73. Stanford Nanofabrication Facility, Stanford University

74. Texas Materials Institute, University of Texas at Austin

75. University of Wisconsin Materials Science Center, University of Wisconsin at Madison

Quantitative analysis of the responses to the facility managers’ questionnaire is inappropriate, of course, because of sample bias and size, but several figures (Figures C.2 through C.6) are presented here to provide information, based on responses to the facilities questionnaire, regarding sources of support for and distribution of annual operating budgets, numbers of users and makeup of the user base, and full-time-equivalent staff supporting midsize facilities.