QUESTION: PhysicalA2

Not applicable.

Field surveying equipment: 1 Trimble GPS unit, 1 total station theodolite, Silva Ranger compasses, reel tapes, pin flags, and other, mostly outdated optical surveying equipment.  Several of the reel tapes need to be replaced.

Field excavation equipment: air pump tank, portable garages (for shade), construction tool box, spades, square shovels, trowels, shaker screens, wheelbarrows, scoops, grid nails, tape measures, folding rules, etc.  This equipment is largely adequate for program needs, although there can be additional demands made by contracted archaeology fieldwork

Teaching:
Portable Computer/projector CD and web projection in non-equipped classrooms
Scanner 
Video projectors
	Maps – very old
	6 tape recorders and 2 transcribers (new)
2 digital cameras

Archaeology:   optical microscopes, digital calipers, small capacity digital scales for weighing, magnifier lights, lamps, shop vacuum, 2 fume hoods, chest freezer, 3 computers, laser printer, storage cabinets and shelves.  
 
The current skeletal equipment in the physical (biological) anthropology labs is uneven both in quantity and quality.  The lab collections include three human (bone) articulated skeletons, and two plastic articulated skeletons.  Both the bones and articulating hardware are in poor repair except for the newest (plastic) articulated skeleton.  The collection also includes several partial disarticulated skeletons.  Since most of these specimens were derived from standard adult male and female individuals, the collection lacks the variability needed for instruction of students in the differences in age, genetic or phenotypic variability. The department houses a large number of plaster casts (most of them composite casts) of fossil specimens acquired in the 1970s.  Some of these specimens are one-of-a-kind, including rare specimens of high value.  Others are composite specimens represented by multiple, duplicate casts.  The plaster casts are worn. Many are broken, partial and of limited instructional use.  A significant number need to be replaced. Acquisitions of non-human primate casts, of both modern and fossil specimens have very slowly benefited our overall collections.  These specimens are needed for instructional purposes in courses supporting the PBE program and in courses where comparative primate anatomy and primate evolution form the focus of instruction. The current arrangement for storage, labeling, and limiting access to human, non-human, and fossil specimens and casts is wholly inadequate.  Cramped, disorganized, and unlabeled storage has contributed to the deterioration of the existing collection. 

Air-conditioning is sorely needed in lecture rooms 115-118 as is a change-out of the original seating in those rooms.  A photo-documentation room for use by art students to professionally record their artwork in compliance with the requirements of our assessment ART495 courses, or to assist them with their exhibition documentation requirements is also needed.

Classroom/Studio - 3,246 sq. ft. common area used for ceramic instruction. 

Kiln room: 598 sq.ft. General room ventilation and tempered make up air.  All kilns have exhaust ventilation.  
1 54 cu.ft. Shuttle kiln. down draft / forced air.  1 16 cu.ft. Olsen kiln. updraft / natural draft burners.
Bench grinder station.  Double decker ball mill. 

Although we currently do not have an operating soda or wood kiln we do have the resources to build them. 

Clay mixing room:  643 sq.ft. General room ventilation and individual exhaust for each mixer.  1 bluebird clay mixer. 120 lbs. Capacity.  1 very large old clay mixer. 450 lbs. Capacity.  Clay reclaim bins, sink w/clay trap
Large storage pallet rack and complete inventory of dry ceramic materials.

Plaster mold-making room:  57 sq.ft.  Slotted particulate ventilation, water supply and compressed air.

Outdoor Courtyard:  1350 sq.ft.  

Multipurpose space. Natural gas, electricity, and water.

Inventory of bricks and space to possibly build soda kiln or small wood (coffin) kiln.

Graphic Design has good studio facilities and campus access to technical equipment that is important to graphic design students. The department features a large Apple/Macintosh color computer lab with the latest Adobe software (CS2), scanners and color printers.  Students are encouraged to own an Apple/Macintosh color computer system and associated software by the time they start their junior year. 

Jewelry/Metalsmithing:  The Jewelry/Metals studio at CWU is well equipped for ordinary Jewelry/Metals fabrication and also features a number of more specialized processes and pieces of equipment.

Photography:  The darkroom facilities include a gang lab with sixteen 4"x5" black and white enlargers, an alternative process room with a fume hood and several ultraviolet light exposure units (up to 48"x60"), a mural printing room (up to 48"x96"), color facilities, a computer lab next to the photography classroom with twenty new dual processor G5 computers, a scanning station with a 44" Epson 9600 printer, Epson 2200 printer, two Imacon film scanners (up to 4"x5"), and a variety of other equipment.

Sculpture:  There are five equipped sections within the sculpture area: plaster/mold making, wood, general fabrication, metals and ventilated spray booth. All areas have been upgraded with current regulatory air ventilation and exhaust systems.  Equipment within the Sculpture Areas include: three-bin plaster sink, 2 - vertical band saws (wood and metal), miter chop saw, 2 - drill presses (wood and metal), disk/belt sander, flexible shaft buffer/grinder, bench grinder, 2 - MIG welders, 3 - oxy-acetylene welding stations, bead blaster, gas forge, plasma cutter, jump shear, metal cutting horizontal band saw, metal cutting electric hack saw, electric kiln, slot hood ventilation for plastic pours, portable swivel arm exhaust for welding processes and compressed air stations. The Sculpture Area also houses a number of power hand tools including pneumatic die and angle grinders, electric angle grinders, jig saws, cordless and electric drills, and palm sanders.

Visual Arts Teaching:  The Visual Arts Teaching program is housed in an 846 square foot room that includes all the necessary materials to support an active art education program for both elementary education and art education majors. Materials for drawing, painting, printmaking, ceramics, fibers, and plaster work are present, as well as a small library of resource books, magazines and journals for researching art lesson plans, issue papers, and other curricular activities. An overhead projector and TV/VCR are stored in the room while the electric kiln is housed in the ceramic department.

Wood Design:  The Wood Design studio is a well equipped facility providing students an opportunity to explore most of the traditional wood fabrication processes. There are separate bench and power machinery rooms which are equipped with a wide variety of hand tools, portable power tools, and stationary machinery 
Also available for student use is a walk-in spray booth for finishing.

Adequacy of program equipment:  At this time, Sculpture requires better fabricating equipment in wood and metals.  Printmaking recently divested itself of three superb presses and only one has been replaced. Ceramics is in need of approximately ten new wheels and this area also requires three new electric kilns.  

1. Flight Training Devices (simulators)
	a. The department utilizes two Frasca 141s, a Frasca 242, and a Frasca 242T simulator. 
	b. The Frasca 141s were upgraded three years ago and are adequate for the current needs - they are cuurently housed in a storage room in Hertz Hall
	c. The Frasca 242 and 242T both operate with DOS-based master computers and are very user unfriendly for instructor set up. The avionics (radios) are obsolete and manufacturer does not support the equipment.
	d. The tabletop simulators were recently upgraded and are adequate - but they are in a room on the fourth floor of the library and students do not have access to them unless they get a key from Michaelson hall for that library room.

Chemistry Department faculty, staff, and students are dependent on sophisticated computer software and equipment in order to carry out the work of the discipline.  Since chemistry practice is linked to laboratory work, the department is necessarily resource intensive.  Ten years ago when we moved in to the Science Building, our instruments and equipment were state-of-the-art. Now we are facing increasing upgrade, repair, and maintenance costs as these instruments age.  It is essential to our program to keep our existing equipment functional and to plan for replacements in the future.  

The department is in desperate need of additional digital cameras for the FVS and broadcast journalism program.  The national conversion to high definition television means that much of our equipment will be obsolete.  Requests have been made to upgrade the equipment.  The department uses some of its summer funds to purchase and maintain video equipment and editing stations, but this will be beyond the capacity of the department.

January, 2008
As the discussion for the support of teaching and scholarship above noted such activities in computer science require access to state-of-the-art computing technology.  Over the last four years with the help of the Office of the Dean and ITS the department has achieved the following improvements with respect to its facilities.

- One new and one expanded general instructional lab.

- One new special purpose lab meeting the needs of three activities, networking, Linux access, and data mining instruction.

- New equipment and software for all instructional labs on a regular basis.

- The new Imaging Research Lab.

- Improved funding strategies for instructional labs: equipment grants, software grants, student fee, excellent cooperation between the department, the COTS Dean and ITS.

Adequate

We are in good shape.

Our department-managed media room, used for screening film and video, is in constant use for film classes and films relevant to literature classes.  Some of the equipment, however, needs to be updated.

1. The department has no equipment budget for purchasing or updating lab equipment for the fashion and interiors programs.  Textiles testing equipment and interiors equipment were transferred to the FCS department when the other CWU departments were ready to dispose of it.

2. Student lab fees are used to maintain existing equipment.

The classrooms at all three campuses are equipped with state of the art multimedia kiosks.  There are computer labs available at all campuses.

There is a computer lab in our building that has decent hours for students and programs in different languages.  This is an asset to our students.  We would like to have a language lab with a room containing a video camera and audio recording equipment for student presentations and practice.

The Geography department has assembled, over time, an assortment of field and classroom devices and equipment for facilitating student learning and for conducting research.  These may be listed under the following categories:

Field surveying equipment: 
20 Garmin Etrex GPS units
5 Trimble GPS units
1 total station theodolites
5 laser rangefinders
Assorted slope-a-scopes, Brunton pocket transits with tripods, Silva Ranger compasses, altimeters, range poles, reel tapes, pin flags, and other, mostly outdated optical surveying equipment.  Several of the reel tapes need to be replaced. 

Hydrology equipment: 
3 research boats and trailers
6 flow meters
2 turbidity meters
3 DO (dissolved oxygen) meters
1 conductivity meter
1 water quality monitoring kit
2 Secchi disks
Along with sediment sampler tube, Imhof cone, dredges (Ponar, Petereson, and Ekman), pH meters, thermographs, light extinction meter, waders.  Equipment is largely adequate for current teaching and research needs.

Climatology and biogeography equipment: 
Various thermometers, max-min thermometers, sling psychrometers, wind meters, increment borers, DBH tapes.  Equipment is largely adequate for current teaching and research needs.

Air photo and GIS laboratory equipment: 
40 pocket stereoscopes
10 mirror stereoscopes
28 computers
large format HP color plotter
laser printer
color laser printer
2 desktop scanners
2 large format digitizers  
The computers for GIS need to be replaced every three years to avoid obsolescence for their rapidly evolving software.

Soil and sediment laboratory equipment: 
pocket penetrometer
soil sampling kit
bucket augers and extensions
geological sieves
roto-tap sieve shaker
large settling tubes
3 triple beam balances
2 soil drying ovens (1 functional), and other glassware.  
While each of these is adequate, there are significant gaps in equipment for this work.  Additional equipment, such as a muffle oven for organic analysis, will be requested as part of the anticipated move to Dean Hall.   

Through a variety of creative methods, the department has built an inventory of equipment that is adequate to serve the needs of our students. However, as mentioned above, we have some challenges maintaining and replacing some equipment such as petrographic microscopes and total stations. All of the larger pieces of instrumentation were purchased with external money.  Additional larger pieces of instrumentation would be beneficial, because training on these types of instruments makes our students more competitive in the job and graduate school market. 

Laboratory equipment is in marginal condition. It is expected that this will greatly improve with the construction of a new building. 
Software up-grades are a problem since costs for renewals can be expensive.

Computer labs seem to be upgraded every three years or so. The department has one dedicated lab for our use; monies to upgrade that lab are a department responsibility. We allocate approximately $35,000 every three years to upgrade this lab.

At the Centers, the Law and Justice programs share all equipment with other programs. In Ellensburg, the department shared a copy machine with Political Science. After the move in Sprint 2009, the Law and Justice Department obtained a copy machine. In order to establish a mock courtroom, remodeling will need to be completed, plus the purchase of related furniture and specialty items. A computer lab with the Department of Sociology is needed.

Student Computing Facilities.  Nearly all business courses on the main campus in Ellensburg are taught in Shaw-Smyser Hall.  Within Shaw-Smyser, there are six computer labs and a total of 168 computers available for students.  In 13 other buildings across the Ellensburg campus, there are an additional 400+ computers available in a total of 21 computer labs.  At CWU-Lynnwood, located on the campus of Edmonds Community college, there are two student computer labs each housing 31 computers.  The CWU-Des Moines site, located on the campus of Highline Community College, also has two student computer labs with a total of 44 computers.  (See Table 43 for locations, hours, and computer types.)  Software available in the labs includes the Microsoft Office suite, SPSS, business simulation programs, and web design software. Upon enrollment, every student at CWU is given an e-mail account and network storage for a personal web page.

Distance Education Resources.  The CWU Ellensburg campus has several classrooms that are capable of originating and receiving interactive video classes.  One of these classrooms is in Shaw-Smyser.  Others are in the Science Building (2), Library and Black Hall (2).  CWU-Lynnwood has two classrooms and a small conference room equipped with this technology.  The new CWU-Des Moines facility has 5 classrooms equipped with DE equipment.  With this technology, students and faculty can interactively conduct classes even though the instructor may be in Lynnwood and students in Ellensburg.  Other centers in central Washington receive selected courses for place-bound students, but do not offer degree programs.  These sites are in Yakima, Wenatchee, and Moses Lake.

Please see "technology" section below.

The equipment request for the new Music Building totaled $3.6 million, of which $2.4 million was funded.  This includes everything that was not in the construction budget line.  The language of the legislative appropriation specified that the funds provided could not be used for “small musical instruments,” “laptop computers” and “small printers.”  The desktop printers in each office and two laptop computers were purchased with funds supplied by donations of people who bought “seats” in the Concert Hall.  The question of small instruments will be addressed below.  

The $2.4 million purchased the following: 
a) Non-instruments:
   i.  All furniture (desks, telephones, workstations, shelves, file cabinets, clothing racks, etc)
  ii.  Computers, software and related items
 iii.  Classroom and office equipment
  iv.  Recording, communication and playback equipment. A complete list of technical equipment is provided in 

Appendix F
   v.  Ensemble library storage units
  vi.  Instrument storage cabinets
 vii.  Performance equipment: stage risers, choral risers, conducting stations and moveable acoustic panels for the performance halls.

b)	Instruments:
   i.  Band/orchestral instruments

The language forbidding the purchase of “small musical instruments’ was frustrating both as to the reason for its inclusion in the appropriation bill (no reason was ever officially offered), and its intended parameters.  Repeated requests for a definition of “small” failed to elicit a response.  Eventually, only after the complete list was submitted, it came to mean any woodwind smaller than a bassoon, any brass smaller than a euphonium and any string instrument smaller than a cello.  Thus:

· We are now well equipped with bassoons, baritone and bass saxophones and bass clarinets, we still have a need for tenor alto and soprano saxophones, clarinets, oboes, English horns, and piccolos.  

· We now are well equipped with tubas and euphoniums, we still have a need for trombones, trumpets and French horns.  

· We are now well equipped with cellos and string basses, we still have a need for violins and violas.
Some of these needs are critical, some less so, and the function of the needs vary.  For example, E flat trumpets, E flat clarinets, piccolos, English horns, horns and alto/bass trombones are needed for use in ensembles, violins and violas are needed for use in music education methods courses.

   ii.	Percussion Instruments.

The percussion area profited greatly from the particular language of the legislation.  In addition to being able to purchase multiple sets of timpani (including a pair of classical timpani), marimbas, xylophones and drumsets, the strategy of combining many small instruments, such as snares, tom toms, cymbals, wood blocks, bongos, sirens, etc) into “Concert Drum Sets” facilitated the purchase of literally dozens of small percussion instruments that would not have been possible to purchase singly.  The amount spent on percussion instruments totaled around $200K.  

  iii.	Keyboard, miscellaneous instruments.

All keyboard instruments were considered “large,” so this area also profited from the legislative language.  Most of the pianos purchased have been described above.  The amount spent on all pianos totaled around $570K.  In addition to those pianos, 16 grand pianos and 3 uprights were retained and moved from the old music building.  Most will be rebuilt by the department piano technician 

Other instruments acquired include:

· A large Italian harpsichord, made by Owen Daly, of Salem, OR

· A single 8’ stop chamber (continuo) organ, made by John Bennett of Boston, MA

· A 5-octave Yamaha celeste

· A Lyon and Healey Style 15, 46 string harp

Our department does not use lab equipment. 

Physics Department faculty, staff, and students are dependent on sophisticated equipment and computer software in order to carry out the work of the discipline.  Since physics practice is linked to laboratory work, the Department is necessarily resource intensive.  With some of the equipment reaching 50 years of age, few instruments in the Department can be considered state-of-the-art.  This is particularly true for the upper-division physics labs, such as the Optics Laboratory, Modern Physics Laboratory I and II, Electronics Laboratory and the Observatory.  The Physics Department is gravely concerned with the condition and availability of instrumentation for its upper-division laboratories and foresee this as a major stumbling block in the future.  Although the need is just as acute for the lower-division laboratories, there are external funding sources available and the Physics Department is currently preparing proposals to address this need.  With the influx of experimental research programs, the Department will also be facing increasing upgrade, repair, and maintenance costs for these programs.  It is essential to the Physics program to keep its existing equipment functional and to plan for replacements in the future.  

Our office equipment is fine, though we would argue that as we do not use laboratory or other equipment, computers are instead the primary equipment for teaching and research in political science, and these need to be updated regularly.  During the period under review, we were able to obtain some new upgraded computers for some faculty through a University trade in program. Essentially, the Department exchanged outdated computers/CPUs - or CPUs with outdated operating systems (which were a potential information security risk) - for new ones at half the cost (i.e., the ITS department covered half of it), not counting monitors. While this program has been extended, and put into the base, it is unclear how often (or old) computers will be eligible. We would like to go on the record saying that regular computer upgrades are essential for faculty in political science.

Second, we would again note that we share our photocopier with the Law and Justice Department, and are unable to fully fund it ourselves. If they leave the building (which is part of the University Master Plan), our ability to have such a machine is in doubt.  Again, this is a vital piece of equipment, and sharing with Psychology (given their large size) is not practical.  Other than this, the Department has the equipment with which to do its job.

(January 2008)
Comments on the adequacy of equipment may be found in Standard 7.A. Currently, our only animal laboratories are on the Ellensburg campus. We do not anticipate animal research at the centers, but development of the psychology major at the centers may require some accommodation to human research needs. 

There is a small lab on the top floor. The facility has eight PC’s and one printer.  In 2004/05 Computer Support Services wanted to close the lab in a centralization effort.  We managed to keep it open because it was used by several of our classes (and Anthropology occasionally schedules the lab for its courses), but we no longer have a student assistant assigned to the lab by CSS.

Equipment upgrading needed to meet safety standards. 

Response-
1.  McConnell Auditorium Safety and Classroom Renovation 2002-03
2.  Purchased new shop and theatre equipment

Challenges
·Limited class, office, lecture and rehearsal spaces.  
Response-  
McConnell renovation helped somewhat. Still need classroom, office, and rehearsal spaces. The Department is simple too large for the physical spaces allocated.


·Limited storage space. 
Response- 
Move to Old Heat is helpful.  
Still some needs here.  The Department is simple too large for the physical spaces allocated.