User Fees and Billing

As with other university-based shared facilities, hourly user fees are charged as a means of recovering a portion of the costs associated with operating such a facility. These fees are reviewed and approved by the SMIF Faculty Advisory Committee, the Pratt School of Engineering Dean's Office, and the Duke University Central Accounting office.

Industry users working on government contracts are billed at the "External University and Non-Profit" rate.

Note: The users fees typically increase by 3% on July 1 (the start of a new fiscal year)

Equipment Use Fees effective July 1, 2023

Note: Monthly caps have been removed for all instruments except Cleanroom/EBL1 and MICROCT1. The monthly cap is the maximum amount that is charged for that tool group or instrument per month. This cap is applied per user within a given fund code, and not per faculty or PI. There is no monthly cap on users fees incurred by industry users.

*Cleanroom users are billed for the time they are in the cleanroom as noted by logging in (starting a Clean Room tool group reservation) upon entering the cleanroom and logging out (stopping a Clean Room tool group reservation) upon exiting the cleanroom.  Reservations for equipment inside the cleanroom are not billed, except for the EBL.