Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi-110067. India
About USIC
The Facilities
The University Science
Instrumentation Center was established in Jawaharlal
Nehru University in 1979 under the scheme of UGC for providing
in-house facilities of Design / development / fabrication
and maintenance of sophisticated scientific instruments
and the training of researchers / teachers and technical
staff of the University involved in the technical activities.
Location
The centre is located in
the School of Computer and Systems Sciences Building with its workshop
in the basement of the building.
At present the University Science
Instrumentation Centre at JNU has the following basic facilities
Advanced Instrumentation Facility
(AIF)
for providing the state of art
facility of analytical instrumentation fr reasearch and training in all
areas of sciences. For further details about AIF Click
Here
Computer Maintenance Cell (CMC)
For providing in house maintenance
of Computers, printers and UPS systems in JNU. For further details about
CMC and instructions for protection of your PC's and Printers etc Click
here
Design and Develoement Facility
The centre is having well equiped
workshop with the following facilities
Mechanical workshop
Electronics laboratory
Electrical workshop
Carpentry workshop
and other general tools and workshop
facilities
Since its inception the USIC in JNU
has been catering to the needs of the researchers of in-house design/ Development
and fabrication of equipment / instruments and attachments for the research
laboratories of the university and Science Schools in particular.
The Center has designed many equipment and instruments for research
in all disciplines
Few of such instruments
designed / fabricated by USIC are
Electrophoresis apparatuses
and combs
Power supplies
Fumigation chambers,
laminar flow benches
Animal/Plant sample holders
Pre-amplifiers,
Digital Pico-voltmeter
Radiation Chambers (Optical/Laser/x-rays/Gamma
rays)
Temperature controlled baths and
cryostats
Gas flow position sensitive radiation
detectors
Optical bench components
Vacuum feed-through manipulators
Magnetic Bottle for plasma studies
and many more
Apart from the scientoific jobs
as per its mission the USIC has been accepting the challenging tasks which
are not executed by common bodies with in the university. Some of
the jobs executed by USIC are shown in the the Picture
Gallery
