Advanced Analysis Facility
Facility Profile
Mission
The Advanced Analysis Facility, located in Engineering and Mathematical Sciences building, is a long-range development designed to acquire and assemble in one location selected, sophisticated scientific equipment that can be used on a shared basis. The UWM faculty and staff members provide the intellectual component necessary to interpret results after experiments have been conducted. The AAF provides opportunities for cooperative partnerships with private industry, including industry-sponsored research, and between UWM and government agencies.
Analysis Capabilities
The AAF provides broad analytical service in materials analysis (e.g., XRD, ESCA, SEM), trace components analysis (e.g., GC-MS, ICP-AES) and molecular structure analysis (e.g., mass spectrometer, FTIR, UV spectrophotometers).
The Industrial Connection
The Advanced Analysis Facility serves industry as a consulting and applied research facility. For industry, AAF faculty affiliates provide expertise which can be applied to solving industrial problems. Faculty are able to meet with industrial representatives, assess problems, and develop solutions utilizing the appropriate equipment and instrumentation of the Facility. AAF scientists have accumulated years of practical experience in working with companies on applied research projects.
This wealth of experience is a major strength of the AAF approach to industrial research and becomes a real benefit to companies seeking solutions to their analytical problems. Companies currently working with AAF faculty include SC Johnson Wax/Polymer Division, Wayne Pigment Corporation, Johnson Controls/Battery Division, Benz Oil, Prent Thermoforming, Pharmacia Biotech Inc., Miller Brewing Company, and Midwest Research Technologies, Inc.
AAF Summer Research Intern Program
Begun in 1996, the program was created to provide qualified UWM undergraduates with a unique hands-on experience, utilizing the scientific equipment and instrumentation housed in the Facility. The AAF provides a broad spectrum of analytical instruments, including UV-VIS and FTIR Spectrometers, optical and FTIR microscopes, Scanning Electron Microscope with Elemental Analyzer, Gas Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometer, X-Ray Diffractometer, TGA/DTA System, X-Ray Photoelectron Spectrometer (ESCA), etc.
The program is open to students and faculty mentors interested in academic research and familiar with instrumentation at the AAF. Research disciplines may include but are not limited to: Chemistry, Physics, Engineering, Materials, Biology and Geosciences. For the program to work effectively and benefit the students involved, each intern must be supervised by a qualified faculty member who agrees to serve as a mentor during the summer months. Students work with their chosen mentors on an eight-week, in-depth research project. Students and faculty meet weekly to discuss research projects in progress. Brief oral presentations to group as well as a final written project report are required.
Each intern will receive a stipend of as part of the AAF summer program.
Faculty members who wish to serve as mentors may submit research project proposals and nominate students by contacting the Advanced Analysis Facility.
The deadline for submission is usually mid- April.
For more information about the intern program or the Advanced Analysis Facility , contact Director Andrey V. Sklyarov at 414-229-6692 or 414-229-6544.
