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Lab Technician Training

Knowledgeable and trained lab technicians are essential for industries to ensure the safety and quality of their processes and products. In order to provide accurate and efficient analysis, lab technicians should have a solid understanding of chemistry fundamentals as well as lab equipment and procedures. CiNet's lab technician training series is designed to cover a wide range of lab tech training needs.

Lab Technician Training Benefits

Lab technician training curriculum provides the student with the knowledge needed to perform the typical tasks of a lab technician or plant chemist. Courses are designed to provide a theoretical as well as practical understanding of chemistry and analysis. Introductory courses include lab hardware, lab technician math, personal safety for lab techs, and basic lab operations.

CiNet also provides advanced technical courses like advanced chemistry, quality control and assurance, and analytical procedures. These courses give the student the advanced technical background required for them to successfully complete the duties of a typical industrial lab technician.

Lab Technician Training Highlights

Physical properties, molecular structure, and typical reactions of alkanes, alkenes, and alkynes
Appropriate analytical procedures and collecting and reporting data, including calculating percent recovery and relative percent difference
Equipment used to conduct atomic absorption measurements for both conventional, or flame, and graphite furnace atomic absorption
Use of quality control in laboratories and how quality control affects lab operations
Performing an HPLC analysis: solvent preparation and delivery; sample preparation and injection; sample separation; component detection; and data processing
How a pH meter can be used to measure the acidity or alkalinity of a liquid and how a conductance meter can be used to measure a liquid's ability to conduct current
Features of a typical mass spectrum and a typical total ion chromatogram