Instrument Maintenance & Repair

0.5 credits · Graduate

In this course, students will be taught the basic aspects of routine instrument maintenance and learn simple types of common repairs required for chromatographic and mass spectrometric instrumentation. Students will be familiarized with the fundamentals of several main relevant areas, including vacuum technology, ion optics, gas and liquid handling, instrumental electronics, and computer control of instrumentation. They will also learn how to assess the operational state of different parts of analytical instrumentation, and how to perform routine measures that maintain or restore this operational state. By the end of this course, successful students will be competent at performing routine maintenance tasks for chromatographic and mass spectrometric instrumentation, and will be able to attempt simple common repairs under the supervision of more experienced personnel (e.g. service technicians).