February 22, 2013 - February 28, 2013

Febuary 26, 2013

Items that were ordered today:

10- glass vials with lids (to test fibers). From Central Stores Warehours

4 - caliper and micrometer sets. From globalindustrial.com

10- corrugated cardboard sheets (42x42). From globalindustrial.com

1 - universal register box w/flanges (12x12x8). From homedepot.com

3 each of - 100 ft. black, red, and blue 22awg solid wire. From digikey.com

A Google Calendar has been made called "Microscope Construction Schedule." It contains the entire planned schedule for the construction of the tagger microscope. It is color coded so that grad students tasks appear in green, undergrad students appear blue, the tech is yellow, and anything needing machining is grey. In this way, I am able to see what jobs need to be worked on that day and can delegate tasks based on the grad/student/tech label and the days/times that students will be in the lab. I feel that this organization will help me immensely when it comes to planning this enormous task.

Another thing that I worked on this week was a spreadsheet to track the training of students as they work in our lab. The Chemical Health and Safety Training and the Collaborative Institutional Training are on the list, as well as each of the work stations in the lab. When a person is competent at a task they will be considered "trained" and the date this occurs will go by their names. In this way, we can keep track of what stations students may be best suited to work on when they come in for a day of work. At the moment Jonathan Kulakofsky, Liana Hotte, myself and the graduate students are all up to date on chemical health and safety training and institutional collaboration training. Kenneth is not trained at all yet, but plans to take the CITI training by this Thursday, and has signed up for the chemical health and safety training on or near March 15th. Hopefully, by the time his contract is ready to be signed he will have completed the training and be able to jump into working in the lab.