Course Attendees have come from:

U.S. Army

Mayo Foundation

Weidmann Diagnostic Solutions

Shell Albian Sands

Edgewood Chemical Biological Center

Bayer Healthcare

The Coca-Cola Company

American Assay Laboratories

AAC Labs

Amgen

Honolulu Water Quality Lab

NY State Police Forensic Center

E. I. Lilly / Singapore

Millipore Corporation

Comments from those attending 2008 & Sept. 2009 course:

“ the examples I found the most helpful ... How other people have addressed issues and the brick walls that they dealt with. ”
“… this course is excellent for design and implementation stages ”

Manager, Biotech automation technology group

• “ Day 1 gave me assurance, but days 2 & 3 were a shift of gears and were very beneficial ”
• “ A tough topic and very well presented ”
• from a follow-up email: "Like I mentioned in my eval, I really enjoyed the class and came back on information overload......so I will definitely have to review my notes."


Manager, Water Quality Laboratory

“ This course is great for those individuals embarking on automation. ”

Supervisor, Forensic Laboratory Services

"Very though provoking. I am much more aware of where possible automation opportunities exist. The course operated at the right level for management to appreciate. Not too technical and not too high level."

"I want my automation engineers to attend a similar course."

Associate Director of Operations

"... I think it will be useful for the whole management body of a company to take the course together. Middle management cannot take some of the big picture interpretation decisions."

"It was an eye opener in many aspect related with lab automation and lab management in general."

"I liked the format and the pace of the training."

"I would like to send a person from my team to the lab automation engineer training."

Lab Manager

Verbal comments made during the course 2008:

• " I wish we had more people from our lab here ..."
• " Our IT people need this material "
• " I needed this course 3 years ago.. "

Note: these comments are from the Sept. 30th to Oct. 2nd 2008 edition of the course offered through Delphinus, Inc., and the September 2009 edition offered by Institute for Laboratory Automation with the same instructor.

Comments from the PITTCON 2009 Edition (length: 2 days) of the Course

• 9 students, 8 returned comment sheets
• Course ratings: 2 Good, 3 Very Good, 3 Excellent
• Instructor ratings: 1 Fair, 4 Very Good, 3 Excellent
• Course comments to "what did you like":
  • "Systematic and in depth"
  • "Provided good framework on how to plan automation"
  • "well organized, good slides, evaluating technologies"
  • "learning abou how to work with people, automation, & coordinating them"