SIX IMPORTANT SESSIONS LEARN THE LATEST TECHNIQUES FROM THE LEADING AUTHORITIES
ACS Intensive Short Courses IN KING OF PRUSSIA, PA AND WASHINGTON, DC APRIL-MAY, 1980 KING OF PRUSSIA, PA... In Conjunction with the ACS Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting
WASHINGTON, DC . . . HANDS-ON
GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY Emphasizing practical applications, this introductory course covers the basic principles and procedures, of gas chromatography, enabling participants to operate a variety of instruments, read the current literature, and comprehend and evaluate new developments as they appear. The limits of application of GC will be discussed as well as logical approaches to separation design. No prior knowledge of GC is presumed. INSTRUCTORS: Dr. Roy A. Keller, State University of New York at Fredonia; and Dr. Michael F. Burke, University of Arizona.
HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY APPARATUS WORKSHOP This introductory course provides an opportunity for participants to learn all of the basic design concepts and experimenter skills needed to make, modify, repair and use LC apparatus. Participants will be taught some novel advantages of low pressure programming, as well as such techniques as how to make connection between union fittings and high pressure tubing, how to sieve and prepare column packings, and how to develop a separation at the analytical, preparative and trace levels.
FEE: ACS Members, $265.00; Nonmembers, $305.00.
INSRUCTOR: Dr. David H. Freeman, University of Maryland, Course Director.
DATES: April 21-22, 1980.
FEE: ACS Members, $275.00; Nonmembers, $310.00. DATES: May 7-8,1980.
STATISTICS FOR EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN
DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF INDUSTRIAL EXPERIMENTS
Emphasizing the methods underlying efficient data gathering problems, the course teaches participants the value of statistics as a vital part of both experimental design and the interpretation of experimental results. Participants learn how to recognize problems that lend themselves to a statistical treatment and how to carry out statistical operations. The course will benefit chemists and chemical engineers involved in research, development, product planning, design, pilot plant operations, and production planning.
The course provides the experimenter with the fundamental statistical concepts underlying experimental designs. Methods of estimation, numerical analysis and interpretation of results from factorial and fractional factorial experiments are developed in this course. The student will be taught how to measure the relationships of several influential variables acting alone and/or in combination with each other with the same accuracy as if only one factor had been varied at a time. Some experience with, and understanding of, the use of basic statistics would be helpful.
INSTRUCTOR: Dr. John D. Hromi, Lawrence Institute of Technology.
INSTRUCTOR: Dr. John D. Hromi, Lawrence Institute of Technology.
FEE: ACS Members, $265.00; Nonmembers, $305.00.
FEE: ACS Members, $265.00; Nonmembers, $305.00.
DATES: May 7-8,1980.
DATES: May 9-10,1980.
WRITING FOR RESULTS This new, intensive, one-day course is for scientists, managers and administrators who want to sharpen their writing skills, and for anyone who supervises others who need to write. The program will be in three parts: principles of effective technical and scientific writing; the writing process; and applications to letters, memoranda, technical reports and briefs. Writing instruction will be practical and work-related. Principles will be applied to the writing of clear, hard-hitting letters, memoranda, and technical reports.
CHARACTERIZATION OF POLYMERS This course provides a comprehensive overview of the key experimental techniques which provide information on polymeric structures and properties. Participants will learn the fundamental tools for characterizing such important practical polymer systems as elastomers, plastics, fibers, coatings, and adhesives. The scientist or engineer seeking a refresher course or just entering the polymer chemistry field will find this program to be valuable as an in-depth survey of polymer characterization.
INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Anne Eisenberg, Polytechnic Institute of New York.
INSTRUCTORS: Dr. James E. McGrath, Dr. Thomas C. Ward, and Dr. Garth L Wilkes, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
FEE: ACS Members, $125.00; Nonmembers, $165.00.
FEE: ACS Members, $265.00; Nonmembers, $305.00.
DATE: May 9, 1980.
DATES: May 9-10,1980.
To register or to obtain detailed brochure on any of these courses, call or write now. Class size is limited, so early action is advised. Students and unemployed ACS members: write for information on special discounts. Department of Educational Activities, American Chemical Society, 1155 Sixteenth Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. 20036 or CALL (202) 872-4508. 10
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