result of NMR TA survey
T. Pratum (pratum@u.washington.edu)
Thu, 7 May 1998 12:52:17 -0700 (PDT)
The description of each persons NMR TA situation was a little more
complicated than this, but basically the respondents' institutions had:
2 TA for 5 instruments
1 TA for 2 instruments
1 TA for 4 instruments
2 TA for 5 instruments
2 TA for 7 instruments + an ESR
1 workstudy for 5 instruments
3 TA for 4 instruments
1 TA for 4 instruments
1 TA for 6 instruments + gcms + epr + ftir + uv/vis
1 TA for ? instruments
1 TA for 4 instruments
1 TA for 6 instruments
...and 4 people responded that they have no TAs at all.
As you can see, most respondents seem to have about 1 TA no matter how
many instruments they have.
As far as the selection process, that was overwhelmingly dominated by the
facility manager themselves selecting the TA (or at least having a lot of
input), and there was a very negative feeling about having a TA dumped
into this position that didn't know anything about it or want to do it.
I would like to thank the following people for responding:
leonard charles dickinson, John S. Harwood, Ron Nieman, Richard Shoemaker,
Perry J. Pellechia, Hongjun Pan, Chris Rithner, Bill Stevens, roy hoffman,
Rainer Haessner, Charlie Fry, Ben Bangerter, Jane Strouse, Ata Shirazi,
Chris Greenwood, Kenner Christensen.
Tom Pratum
Dept of Chemistry
Box 351700
Univ of Washington
pratum@u.washington.edu
http://weber.u.washington.edu/~pratum