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BELS Weekly Meeting Running Agenda

Announcements
Targeted To-Dos this week
Targeted To-Dos next week
Safety Share
BELS Student Hours Winter 2009
Tasks and Status

Training & Development
Lab Improvements
BELS Parts Inventory & Point of Sale System
Misc.

BELS Weekly Meeting Running Agenda

-- Main.Rvitale - 25 Aug 2008 -- Main.Suprdave - 06 Mar 2009

Announcements

BELS Staff Meetings - Friday at 11:00am
BELS Windows hours (Parts and Package Pickup) - 1-5pm try to enforce.
Remember to put BELS part number on invoices (this is the one to four digit number beneath the barcode)
Keep packages/receivables moving

Targeted To-Dos this week

Order lab supplies for for EE080J? (in progress)
Make parts kits for EE171 (done)
Make parts kits for CE121 (in progress)
Cleanup student home directories on Gerber to reclaim disk space (in progress)
Complete BELS parts inventory (in progress)
Print and distribute posters for CE185 and SOE Open House (in progress)

Targeted To-Dos next week

Distribute parts kits to CE100 lab sections on Monday March 9
Finish CE121 parts kits
Identify and replace or repair broken Oscope and DMM probes in labs
Finish poster printing for SOE Open House
Restore fallen posters from E2 window display
Organize surplus accumulation in BE016
Recruit additional student tech to replace Annendra as his available work hours are decreasing

Safety Share

BELS staff share what was done in the past week to promote safe work practices, to proactively reduce hazards and to eduate each other on potential hazards to be aware of. BELSPastSafetyShareNotes

8/20/07 - Christian & Juan - mentioned the freight elevator needs adjustment, floor of elevator does not align with floors (off by several inches). Different when going up & down. When going up the freight elevator floor is too low, when going down the elevator floor is too high. Bob to submit a work request to ask campus facilities to fix. Also asked BELS staff to ensure they have proper safety equipment when entering labs (shoes, safety glasses). Each BELS staff (including students) should have a kit of safety equipment; to include the following:

safety glasses
yellow hard hat
gloves
box of dust masks
small flashlight

BELS Student Hours Winter 2009

Student	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday

Eric Christensen	1530-1730	1230-1800	1530-1730	0900-1730	1100-1300


Ulysses Morales		1200-1800		1300-1800	1100-1800


Annendra Lal	1100-1500		1100-1500		1100-1500

Career Center position ER3484 for BELS student techs posted. Hired three students fall 2008.

Tasks and Status

Training & Development

- Parts Kits:
  - All parts kits for winter quarter distributed

- Update lab equipment database (Ulysses)

- Make up TA inventory and orientation sheet (Eric)
  - Have them keep track of who takes what
  - Include checklist of what's in the lab
  - Rules and responsibilities
  - Introduce BELS (hours, location, and our role)
  - Stock spare parts for EE70/171 in BE150 black cabinet

- HC11 missing Microkits
  - 6/27/08 - need to update inventory
  - kit 74, Gato Scatena out 11/05/04 (soert 19699)
  - kit 98
  - kit 99, Drake Silva
  - kit 100
  - kit 105 - Petersen?
  - kit 120

- - Need to email warning(?) - Bob to charge students

- ILC Requests to make
  - Phase 1 lab development plan approved. Purchase additional benches, computers, instrumentation

- Purchases

- - Phase 1 Summer 2008 Goal: increase lab stations, build out existing labs

- BE161
  - purchase 16 Anthro 4-foot benches to replace 12 6-foot benches
  - purchase 4 o-scopes/power supplies/DMMs for new benches
  - lab station count increases from 12 to 16 seats
- BE138
  - move 8 wood block benches from BE161 - purchase 8 o-scopes/power supplies/DMMs for benches
  - lab station count increases from 0 to 8 seats
- BE115
  - purchase 10 o-scopes/10 arb signal generators, 10 new PCs
- BE113
  - purchase 10 new PCs
- BE111
  - purchase 10 new PCs plus 1 for image master (total 31 new PCs)
  - relocate existing PCs from these labs to BE104 and BE138

- Investigations
  - Point of sale system - Bob give info to Christian

- Student Hire Responsibilities
  - SOE Wide equipment inventory (Ulysses, Al & Bob)
  - Eric and Ulysses to assume receiving tasks, printing posters
  - Eric and Ulysses to assume inventory tasks

Lab Improvements

Lab	Plan	Actions to Do
BE-104	Upgrade computers	Move 21 computers from Sr. Projects Class
BE-111	Upgrade computers (new)	10 New computers, old computers to BE-104 1 additional computer for image
BE-113	Upgrade computers (new)	10 New computers, old computers to BE-104/138
BE-115	Upgrade computers (new)	10 new computers, old computers to BE-104/138 10 new Oscopes, Arbs, and power supplies 20 DMMs if possible.
BE-118 Poster Room	upgrade computer new w/dual monitor	New computer for poster plotter
BE-138 Projects Overflow	lab station count increases from 0 to 8 seats	woodblock benches from BE-161/16 8 old computers from 111/113/115 labs 8 Oscopes, DMMS, Powersupplies, ARBS
BE-148 Optics		-replacement optical equipment
BE-150
BE-161	increase stations from 12 to 16	-16 new benches -4 additional Oscopes -4 additional power supplies -4 additional DMMs
BE-162 Materials & Energy	increase stations from 8 to 12 add test equipment to benches	-12 new benches -12 computers -12 oscopes or USB samplers w/labview -12 low cost DMMS -12 Power Supplies
BE-168	update computers	-12 Computers

Room	New PC	500MHz Oscope	Arb	3-Output Power Supply	DMM
Totals		30	30	30	48
BE104
BE111	11
BE113	10
BE115	10	10	10	10	20
BE118	1
BE138		8	8	8	16
BE148
BE150
BE161
BE162		12	12	12	12
BE168

Winter 2009 Lab Configurations

BE-104
- 21 PCs running WinXP?

BE-111
- 10 PCs running WinXP?

BE-113
- 10 PCs running WinXP?

BE-115
- 10 PCs running WinXP?

BE-118 [SOEPLOT]
- New PC installed as front end interface for plotter (HairyPlotter? )

BE-126 [CLOSED]
- Proposed location for calibration lab

BE-138 [CLOSED]
- Overflow project lab for CE/EE123 winter/spring quarters instead of BE162

BE-148 [OPTICS]

BE-150
- 12 PCs running WinXP?

BE-161
- 16 PCs running WinXP?

BE-162
- 12 PCs running CentOS?
- Install magnet chiller & remove hoses from sink
- Setup second wafer probe station from packing crate

BE-168
- 10 fully functional network lab stations, These are on private network
- 10 PCs running WinXP? on SOE network
- Need additional circuit breakers to accommodate additional PCs

E2-475 [VIDEOCONFERENCING]
- Need power outlets in ceiling for projectors/cameras
- Need blackout curtains/panels to darken room
- Need camera brackets on walls, corner pole by presenters station

E2-516 [ANTENNAS]
- Need access to roof for antenna connections

E2-580 [UnderGrad sponsored research]
- 6 PCs running WinXP?
- Propose to remove BELS instrumentation from this lab if not used as overflow lab

E2-585 [UnderGrad sponsored research]
- 3 PCs running WinXP?
- BELS instrumentation can remain in this lab for support of URNA sponsored student project

E2-592 [Advanced Networking]
- 1 PC running WinXP?
- Need 208V power outlet installed

Notes:

Lab Equipment Matrix

Description	BE104	BE111	BE113	BE115	BE138	BE148	BE150	BE161	BE162	BE168	E2 580	E2 585	total
Benches
6 ft woodblock	2	3	3	4	9	2		2	1	12		2	40
6 ft laminate+shelf		10	10				12						32
4 ft anthro	21								1				22
4 ft anthro+shelf	1			10				16	13				40
Computers
Opt260		1							12	10			23
Opt270							12	16					28
Opt620	21				6								27
Opt755		9	10	10									29
Power Supplies
Agilent E3631A?		9	8	10			24	16			1	2	70
Leader LPS151					1						1		2
Multimeters
Agilent 34401A		9	8	10			24	16	3		1	2	73
Fluke 37	20												20
Oscilloscopes
Tek TDS3054 4chan		9	8	3				3			1	1	25
Tek TDS3052 2chan							12	13					25
Tek 2246				5									5
Kikusui C0S5041?	20						12						32
Signal Generators
Agilent 33120A arb		3	5	2			12	1				1	24

BELS Parts Inventory & Point of Sale System

Clean up database - student techs
Still need to do some remapping of catagories ("audio products") -superdave
Move to actual webserver for testing(?); ask Matthew K.

Item Category	Cat Sub L1	Cat Sub L2	Cat Sub L3	Cat Sub L4
electronic component	resistor	fixed	carbonfilm
electronic component	resistor	variable
electronic component	resistor	fixed	surfacemount	size0805
electronic component	resistor	fixed	surfacemount	size1350

Complete Drawer-by-Drawer check of inventory for barcodes and correct info in database (Juan) Also barcode all parts bins.
Put new hardware into database. verify accuracy of labeling_

Misc.

Help Bob update webpages
Rework signout sheet and sales form (include ability to keep a "running tab" for students during the quarter) (Dave) please see attachments Recharge.xls and Student Sales.xls for proposed documents

Attachment	Size
Recharge.pdf	27.32 KB
Recharge.xls	18 KB
StudentSales.pdf	27.18 KB
StudentSales.xls	18.5 KB