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Develop, improve, or customize products, equipment, formulas, processes, or analytical methods. | Compile and analyze test information to determine process or equipment operating efficiency or to diagnose malfunctions. | Confer with scientists or engineers to conduct analyses of research projects, interpret test results, or develop nonstandard tests. | |||
Direct, coordinate, or advise personnel in test procedures for analyzing components or physical properties of materials. | Induce changes in composition of substances by introducing heat, light, energy, or chemical catalysts for quantitative or qualitative analysis. | Write technical papers or reports or prepare standards and specifications for processes, facilities, products, or tests. | |||
Study effects of various methods of processing, preserving, or packaging on composition or properties of foods. | Prepare test solutions, compounds, or reagents for laboratory personnel to conduct tests. | Maintain laboratory instruments to ensure proper working order and troubleshoot malfunctions when needed. | |||
Conduct quality control tests. | Evaluate laboratory safety procedures to ensure compliance with standards or to make improvements as needed. | Purchase laboratory supplies, such as chemicals, when supplies are low or near their expiration date. | |||
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The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. | The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand. | |||
The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity). | The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem. | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. | |||
The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). | |||
The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. | The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem. | The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly. | |||
The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures. | The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns. | The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. | |||
The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object. | The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you. | The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged. | |||
The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. | The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources). | The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position. | |||
The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects. | The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects. | The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions. | |||
The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion. | The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part. | The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene. | |||
The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears. | The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists. | The ability to quickly move the arms and legs. | |||
The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects. | The ability to use short bursts of muscle force to propel oneself (as in jumping or sprinting), or to throw an object. | The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue. | |||
The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without 'giving out' or fatiguing. | The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath. | The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs. | |||
The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, arms, and/or legs. | The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion. | The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position. | |||
The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | The ability to see details at a distance. | The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness. | |||
The ability to see under low light conditions. | The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one's side when the eyes are looking ahead. | The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object. | |||
The ability to see objects in the presence of glare or bright lighting. | The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness. | The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds. | |||
The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated. | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. | |||
Tools Used | |||||
Airfree/waterfree solvent purification systems | Alcohol lamps | Analytical balances | |||
Annealing ovens | Atomic absorption AA spectrometers | Automatic peptide synthesizers | |||
Autotitrators | Beakers | Benchtop lyophilizers | |||
Box furnace ovens | Bunsen burners | Burets | |||
Capillary electrophoresis systems | Carbon hydrogen nitrogen CHN elemental analyzers | Centrifugal evaporator concentrators | |||
Chemical centrifuges | Closed cycle refrigerators | Cold trap evaporators | |||
Combustion furnaces | Conductance meters | Conductivity detectors | |||
Conductivity meters | Cryogenic refrigerators | Cryostats | |||
Cuvettes | Deflagration spoons | Densitometers | |||
Desktop computers | Differential scanning calorimeters | Digital cameras | |||
Digital electrophoresis documentation and analysis systems | Digital gel analyzer systems | Diode lasers | |||
Dissolved oxygen meters | Distillation ovens | Distilling units | |||
Dye lasers | Electrochemical analyzers | Electronic toploading balances | |||
Erlenmeyer flasks | Floor centrifuges | Flow injection analyzers | |||
Fluorescence microscopes | Fourier transform infrared FTIR spectrometers | Fraction collectors | |||
Freeze dryers | Fume hoods | Funnels | |||
Galvanostats | Gas chromatograph mass spectrometers GC-MS | Gas chromatographs GC | |||
Glassware washers | Graduated cylinders | Grinder mills | |||
Helium-cadmium lasers | High-performance liquid chromatographs | High-pressure high-temperature reactors | |||
High-pressure liquid chromatography systems | High-speed centrifuges | Homogenizers | |||
Hot plates with magnetic stirrers | Hydrogenation apparatus | Immersion probes | |||
Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometers ICP-MS | Inert atmosphere glove boxes | Infrared IR spectrometers | |||
Inverted microscopes | Ion analyzers | Ion selective electrode ISE meters | |||
Karl Fischer titrators | Lab heat exchangers | Laboratory presses | |||
Laboratory vacuum pumps | Laptop computers | Large-format plotters | |||
Laser power meters | Laser printers | Liquid chromatographs LC | |||
Liquid scintillation counters | Luminescence spectrometers | Magnetic susceptibility balances | |||
Magnetometers | Mainframe computers | Mass spectrometers | |||
Melting point apparatus | Mercury lamp photolysis systems | Micro electrobalances | |||
Microcentrifuges | Microdistillation ovens | Microinjectors | |||
Micropipettes | Microplate spectrophotometers | Microwave digestion systems | |||
Mini synthesizers | Monocular microscopes | Multiwell microplates | |||
Nanoscopes | Neodymium-doped Yttrium Aluminum Garnet Nd:YAG lasers | Nitrogen lasers | |||
Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectrometers | Oscillating disc rheometers | Oscilloscopes | |||
Oxygen bomb calorimeters | Particle size analyzers | Personal computers | |||
Petri dishes | pH meters | Photochemical reactors | |||
Picosecond lasers | Pipettes | Pipetting stations | |||
Plasticorders | Polarimeters | Polarizing microscopes | |||
Polarographic analyzers | Potentiostats | Pressure sensors | |||
Reagent pumps | Refrigerated circulators | Refrigerated high-speed centrifuges | |||
Respirators | Respirometers | Rotary evaporators | |||
Scanning electron microscopes SEM | Scanning tunneling microscopes STM | Shaking incubators | |||
Shaking waterbaths | Signal average storage scopes | Single crystal x ray diffractometers | |||
Solar simulators | Solvent recyclers | Sonicators | |||
Spectrofluorimeters | Spectrometers | Spectrophotometers | |||
Speed-vac concentrators | Split-hinge furnaces | Stereo zoom microscopes | |||
Strip chart recorders | Stripping analyzers | Syringe pumps | |||
Tabletop centrifuges | Tensile testers | Test tubes | |||
Thermal cyclers | Thermal gravimetric analyzers | Thistle tubes | |||
Tissue culture plates | Titrators | Top-loading electronic balances | |||
Tube magnetic mixers | Tubular furnaces | Ultracentrifuges | |||
Ultraviolet-visible spectrometers | Vacuum ovens | Water baths | |||
Well tissue culture plates | X ray diffraction equipment | ||||
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