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Facilities/Infrastructure Study Group

Facilities/Infrastructure Study Group. Juyang Huang Lee Burside Tom Gibson Wallace Glab Sung Won Lee Sarah Stubbs Kim Zinsmeyer. Things are done or almost done. Departmental website (Tom and Huang):

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Facilities/Infrastructure Study Group

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  1. Facilities/Infrastructure Study Group Juyang Huang Lee Burside Tom Gibson Wallace Glab Sung Won Lee Sarah Stubbs Kim Zinsmeyer

  2. Things are done or almost done • Departmental website (Tom and Huang): • A new physics department main webpage has been created, which is more attractive and easier to navigate. • Faculty information pages have been updated with uniform format. • Most faculty members have submitted the information. Thank you!

  3. A HEAF request was submitted. Quotes from Lubbock A/V (~$20K) and Physical Plant (~$1K) were obtained for installing 3 ceiling-mount projectors (conference room, Room 10 and 112) together with a video conferencing setup in the conference room. (Sarah and Huang) • A HEAF request was submitted ($8,000) for upgrading computer cluster disk space and power supplies. (Tom and Lee). • A request for more IP addresses was submitted, and IP audit has been conducted. (Tom and Lee)

  4. Wall clocks have been installed in Room 7, 10, and 112 (Sarah and Kim). • Graduate student office assignment list (Huang) • Lab space assignment list (Huang)

  5. Activities Underway • Suggested faculty photo directory. • The main projector in Room 7 will be secured (Kim). • Catalog demo equipments available for teaching Physics I and II (Sarah). But Sarah needs the additional room to start the work. • Make Name Tags for faculty offices (Kim)

  6. Departmental website improvements (Tom): • Add machine shop information • Add computer facility information • Add/update Observatory information (4) Reorganize/update recruitment information (flowchart by Mahdi). (5) Add TTU library resource links (Sung Won) (6) Others.

  7. Offering a three-week shop course for graduate students (Kim). Question: add it to a 3-credit lab course, or form a 1-credit course, or no credit training?

  8. LCD monitors in Hallway for slide shows and announcements. Follow the model of Mass Communication (Huang and Lee).

  9. What will be needed for the 1/3 increase of enrollment by 2020? • Need 7-8 more TAs to teach undergraduate labs. • Need 2 more teaching labs and equipments. • Number of new faculty? • More Offices and research Lab spaces? • New sections and new courses? • More classrooms?

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