CD in back cover of the book
The book includes a CD in the back cover with a companion teaching, reference, and toolkit program called ChemTech-ToolKit. The ChemTech-ToolKit program contains lesson exercises that stress and review over topics covered in the book, it contains useful calculators, an interactive periodic table, and a link to a laboratory information management system (LIMS) program. The program acts as a learning aid as we move through the various aspects of analytical chemistry laboratory work and the needed skills to be learned.
The combination of the ChemTech-ToolKit program and the chapters in this book can help to prepare the student for a rewarding career as a chemist or a laboratory technician. The book is also a useful reference for the established chemist or technician already working in the laboratory. Because the ChemTech-ToolKit program contains key points of most of the chapters, ChemTech-ToolKit can be used as a reference and toolkit for the chemist and technician throughout his career. ChemTech-ToolKit progresses from the basics of lab fundamentals in safety and glassware through advanced laboratory techniques and analyses. The ChemTech-ToolKit program and the book are a valuable source of reference material also for the industrial or academic researcher in the laboratory. The program and book are in a convenient format for looking up techniques and information in one place for numerous aspects of the lab and of samples whether it’s the analyst, chemist, or researcher using them.
The ChemTech-ToolKit program is a teaching tool designed to equip the chemist, the laboratory analyst, and the technician for a career in the analytical laboratory whether it is a clinical lab, an industrial, petrochemical, petroleum, environmental, college or university, or contract lab. The combination of this book with the ChemTech-ToolKit program would be a perfect approach for a community college that is designing a program that would teach and prepare laboratory technicians for an associate degree, and an undergraduate analytical chemistry textbook.
MAIN MENU OF THE CHEMTECH TOOLKIT PROGRAM
MAIN MENU OF THE LIMS PROGRAM
A very useful computer program found in most laboratories today is the laboratory information management system (LIMS). LIMS are used to input data, track sample progress, record sample data such as company, type, and tests needed and so forth. Later in Chapter 12 we will be introduced to a LIMS example that we will use to log in samples, input data, search samples, approve samples, and print reports and certificates of analysis (C of A). Also becoming more common in labs are electronic laboratory notebooks, and we will take a brief look at using them.
