This course was presented at the the 2010 Pittsburgh Conference (PITTCON) and received an overall rating of "very good" - the course was described as:

• Course was well organized and informative, and,
• Course slides will provide reference for projects in my company

An abbreviated version of this course was presented at the the 2010 IQPC SmartLab Conference (Brussels, March 2010) and received an overall rating of "very good (4.11 rating out of 5)".

At the 2011 Pittcon edition, the course was highly rated, From the comments on what they liked: "Excellent overview and background information", "a good high level framework of what to consider [when] considering lab automation", "LIMS decsion making info"
Attendees came from: Evergreen Packaging, Libbs Farmaceutica, Champion Technologies, Inc., Human Genome Sciences, Inc., Roche Diagnostics, ITN International, Abbott Laboratories, Geoanalytical Laboratories, Amresco Inc., Saskatchewan Research, and Eli Lilly

From the 2010 ALMA National Meeting: "Good course; This does require some background in automation of data reporting"
Overall course rating at meeting: Good for both subject matter and presentation (choices: Excellent, Good, Fair, Poor)