The U.S. Department of Energy is adding nearly $5 million in funding to the $6.7 million it already approved for the Diagnostic Instrumentation and Analysis Laboratory, the university's longest continuous research program.
"When you add this to the $6 million we're to receive for the 1996-97 fiscal year, plus $6.3 million we're scheduled to receive in the following fiscal year, it makes you feel good about your work," said DIAL Director Steve Shepard.
The laboratory has received more than $50 million in federal funding since becoming a research department of the College of Engineering in 1980. Its diagnostic instruments and analysis techniques use lasers to take measurements in extremely hot, highly corrosive atmospheres where conventional measurement devices are ineffective.
Diagnostic instruments and analytical methods developed by DIAL are used throughout the world to analyze combustion and chemical processes used in cleaning up the environment. The staff includes approximately 50 professional and support persons, with a number of the professionals holding joint academic appointments in both the colleges of Engineering and of Arts and Sciences.
Shepard also said construction will soon begin on DIAL's new 54,000-square-foot building at the Mississippi Research and Technology Park near campus. Made possible with DOE and state funds, the new facility will consolidate operations now spread among several campus buildings.
"This will be the premier combustion and diagnostic facility in the world," Shepard said. Work on the building should be complete by late 1996, he added.
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