As your local section, we want to provide courses that you will find useful and interesting. The only way for this to happen is for us to hear from you about what you want. Please take a minute to fill out this survey. We will use the results to plan future short course offerings..

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1) When was the last time you attended a short course?

o 1997 o 1996 o 1995 o 1994 o 1993 o Pre-1993 o Never (skip to #4)

2) The course registration was paid for by:

o Self o Employer

3) What did you like/dislike about the course?

4) Rank the following criteria in order of importance to you (Rank 1-4, with #1 being most important):

Topic
Cost
Time
Location

5) Preferred month for the course (Select THREE months and rank 1-3, #1 being most desirable):

January	April	July	October
February	May	August	November
March	June	September	December

6) Preferred length of the course:

o 2 Days o 3 Days

7) Following is an abbreviated list of short course titles from the 1996 schedule. Select FIVE of the courses that you would be most interested in attending (Rank 1-5, with #1 being most desirable).

ANALYTICAL (GENERAL)

Chemometric Techniques for Quantitative Analysis

Electronics for Laboratory Instrumentation

Microwave Enhanced Sample Preparation

An Experimental Design Approach to Formulation

Practical Electroanalysis

Sample Preparation Methods for Chemical Analysis

Statistical Analysis of Laboratory Data

Environmental & Clinical Solid Phase Extraction

Winning at Chemometrics

BIOLOGICAL, PHARMACEUTICAL, MEDICINAL

Analytical Methods for Proteins

Chemistry of the Synthesis of Peptides

Therapeutic Proteins & Drug Delivery for Peptides & Proteins

Molecular Modeling and Computational Chemistry

Molecular Biology & Recombinant DNA Tech.

Pharmacology for Chemists

Practical Capillary Electrophoresis

Organic Chemistry of Drug Design & Drug Action

Toxicology for Chemists

CHROMATOGRAPHY

Bench Top Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry

Capillary Gas Chromatography

Chiral Separations by Chromatography

High Performance Liquid Chromatography

Gas Chromatography: Theory & Practice

Supercritical Fluid Fractionation/Extraction/Chromatography

COMPUTERS

Laboratory Information Management Systems

Groupware and Sharing

Validation of Chromatography Data Systems

ENVIRONMENTAL

Air Toxics Analysis by U.S. EPA Methods

Catalytic Air Pollution Contron

Environmental Data Validation

Water and Waste Analysis by U.S. EPA Methods

INDUSTRIAL, ENGINEERING

Chemical Engineering & Process Fundamentals for Chemists

Fundamentals of Microencapsulation

MANAGEMENT, BUSINESS, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Building a Winning Scientific & Technical Team

Conflict Management Workshop

Creative Problem Solving and Innovation in R & D

Effective Management of Chemical Analysis Laboratories

New Product Development

Patent Fundamentals for Scientists & Engineers

Technical Writing Workshop

ORGANIC, PHYSICAL

Dispersion of Fine Particles in Liquids

Emulsions & Microemulsions

Frontiers in Organic Chemistry

Modern Synthetic Organic Chemistry

POLYMER

Applied Rheology & Polymer Processing

Emulsion Polymerization

Frontiers in Inorganic Polymers

Frontiers in Polymer Chemistry

Introduction to Adhesives & Composites

Mechanical Behavior of Polymers & Structure

Thermal, Mechanical & Optical Polymer Characterization

Polymer Coatings

Polymer Synthesis

Water Soluble Polymers

QUALITY, REGULATORY, COMPLIANCE

Essentials in Process Validation

Experimental Design for Productivity & Quality in R & D

Good Laboratory Practices & ISO-9000 Standards

Laboratory Safety & Health

Laboratory Waste Management

Quality Assurance/Quality Control

SPECTROSCOPY

Analytical Inductively Coupled Plasma-Emission & Mass Spec.

Atomic Absorption, ICP & ICP-Mass Spectrometry

Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy

Interpretation of IR Spectra

Interpretation of Mass Spectra

Mass Spectrometry: Principles & Practice

Modern FT-NMR Spectroscopy: Principles & Practice

Practical Near-IR Analysis

Two Dimensional NMR Spectroscopy

RETURN THIS COMPLETED SURVEY FORM TO: Dr. William R. Oliver, Department of Chemistry, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY 41099-1905 by November 15, 1997.