LNF Users Committee
This page describes the role and composition of the LNF Users committee.
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LNF Users Committee Role
The LNF User Committee is a group of LNF lab users who advise and give feedback to the LNF staff from a student/lab user perspective, and work on ways to improve the lab, promote student camaraderie, stimulate professional interactions among users, and improve the lab community and environment for LNF users.
LNF Users Committee Membership
Current LNF Users Committee Members:
| Andrew Stephens | Benedict Sussman | Brian VanderElzen |
| Claire Arneson | Audrey Rose Gutierrez | Ester Bentley |
| Rob Hower | Ian Campbell | Kimberly Beers |
| Nathan Dvorak | Bosun Roy-Layinde | Scott Smith |
| Stephanie Norwood | Subhajit Mohanty | Tom Daunais |
| Tonya Newsom | Xiaheng Huang | Yakshita Malhotra |
| Yi Tian | Yuxuan Luan | Xin Zhai |
Past LNF Users Committee Members:
Ashley Jian, Christopher Allemang, Hannah Masten, Howard Shiuan-Haur Su, Mayur Birla, Michael Barrow, Eunah Ko, Rebecca Lentz, Sajal Singh, Sandra Diez
LNF Users committee Activities
New User Orientation
The LNF users Committee is responsible for guiding the New User orientations Tours. These tours are the first introduction for new users to the inside of the facility. Users are taken on a walk through the facility, where they are shown the gowning/ungowning procedure and they are exposed to clean room etiquette. Users are also shown important safety features like showers, eye wash, fire extinguishers, alarm location, etc. Users are also shown tool location and how it relates to the process flow, kiosks to create, start and end tool reservations, microscopes, computers and supplies are located throughout the lab. The tour includes the main cleanroom, CAD room, LNF store and the ROBIN lab. New users find these tours highly informative and valuable. These tours take place on a weekly basis or as needed and they are hosted by LNF Users Committee volunteers. Book here!
Office Hours
The LNF User Commitee hosts an Office Hours in the LNF Conference Room (1340 EECS) for all LNF members to ask processing questions and get help. User Committee members have years of experience with a multitude of different technologies and are sometimes better equipped to help because they actually use the lab! Look for announcements in the monthly update and around the LNF.
Outreach Activities
ECE Family Fun Night 2023
LNF User Committee volunteers ran a demonstration table at ECE Family Night for members of the community, including children. Visitors learned about nano-scale phenomenon related to their lives that we use in the LNF.
Senior User
Senior users are volunteer lab users who have extensive experience working in LNF and are willing to help answer questions related to equipment and processes especially during times when LNF staff are not immediately available, such as during week ends or after regular work hours. Senior users have special nametags identifying them as “Senior Users”, green color name tag with a brown border, which indicates that other lab users can approach them with questions. Senior Users are not obliged to help other lab users if they are busy, and there is no expectation that Senior Users would spend more time in the lab than they ordinarily would. Volunteering to be a Senior User would simply mean that if you happen to be in the lab We hope that by having knowledgeable, experienced lab users give advice to newer lab users, the whole community will benefit.
Current Senior Users (October 2023)
2016 senior Users: Razi Haque, Katherine Knisely, Vikrant Gokhale, Codrin Cionca, Yi Yuan, Yemin (Stacey) Tang, Adam Peczalski, Ali Besharatian, Onnop Srivannavit, Siddharth Gaba, Vikram Thakar, Jaeyoong Cho, and Erkan Aktakka.
2017 New Senior Users
2018 New Senior Users
Audrey Rose Mayur Birla Qiwen Wang Saurabh Acharya Chris Allemang Milad Zolfagharloo Koohi
2019 New senior Users
2021 New Senior users
Social Activities
The LNF Users Committee organizes a variety of social activities such as: Donut hour, Board Game Night, Recipe Swap, the annual BBQ together with the OSUM organization.
Picture Contest
Please visit LNF Picture Contest page to learn about the this activity from the LNF Users Committee.
