Research

Engineering and Instrumentation Unit

Gary Melvin
Facility Director, Engineering and Instrumentation Unit
Office of Science and Technology (OST)
Phone: (301) 496-4074
Fax: (301) 402-0009
E-mail: melving@mail.nih.gov

Photo of images showing instrumentation.

 

Research Overview

Mission

Cutting edge research often requires development of new instruments and equipment not available commercially or requires modifications of available equipment. The Instrument Facility has been established to meet these needs. As a service to NIAMS research community, it is available to NIAMS researchers in general.

General Information

Instrument Facility: Gary Melvin (consultant, design and fabrication), 301-496-4074

Download Request Form [Word Document]
The work request form may be downloaded and should be submitted to Iris Pratt in the Office of Science and Technology.

Capabilities

  • Instrument Design
  • Consultation (available resources)
  • Contracting
  • Solid Modeling
  • CNC milling
  • Lathe
  • Labview

Policies

Services are available to all members of the NIAMS research community, and work is performed generally on a "first in - first out" basis.

Component parts will be charged to the requesters CAN number or should be supplied by the user.

No tools may be removed or borrowed from the Instrument Facility without permission and borrowed tools must be properly signed out. No equipment within the shop is available for “hands on” use.

Work requests must be approved by a person authorized to sign on the account paying for the work (i.e. the laboratory chief, section chief or other authorized signatory must sign off on work requested by students, post-doc’s, technicians, etc).

It is the Instrument Facilities policy to maintain access to sources of information, design and fabrication of noncommercial instruments, and to provide an atmosphere that encourages access to knowledge and sharing of information. The facility also strives to create an intellectual environment in which staff feels free to create individual intellectual works as well as to collaborate with others without fear that the products of their intellectual efforts will be violated, misrepresented, tampered with, destroyed, stolen or prematurely exposed. Nothing in this policy guarantees that violations of this policy will not occur or imposes liability on anyone for any damages resulting from such a violation.


 

Updated September 17, 2007