L-R (Foreground) Paul Morrison, Associate Dean, School of Energy; Elaine Woo, instructor, Chemical and Envirnmental Technology; Cesar Jara Julca, Unity Lab Services; Luc Dionne, TCA Manager, Thermo Scientific; Mark Fiedler, TEA Salesperson, Thermo Scientific.
A wave of Thermo Fisher Scientific personnel dropped in on BCIT’s Chemical and Environmental Technology lab on Monday, January 23. They traveled from across Western Canada to check in on their newly donated Atomic Absorption Spectrometer, the iCE3300.
Richard Denis, Director, Commercial Sales, Thermo Scientific inspects the iCE3300
Elaine Woo, instructor with the Chemical and Environmental Technology program spoke to the group briefly about the importance of industry relations and how meaningful her reciprocal relationship with Thermo Fisher Scientific is to the institute.
“The new spectrometer is an important tool to be utilized by students to gain hands-on experience and achieve analytical competency for both the day school program and the assayer certification,” said Elaine, who has been working closely with Thermo Fisher Scientific Director of Commercial Sales, Richard Denis.
“I believe the donated equipment would bring marketing benefits to Thermo, mainly through exposure of this line of instruments to our students who are either from the analytical industry or will potentially be employed in the same industry,” she said. “I hope we will continue to work together for mutual benefits.”
(L-R) Richard Denis; John Delmonte, Sales, Thermo Scientific; Rodger Beatson, Instructor, Chemical and Environmental Technology; Elaine Woo; Cesar Jara Julca; Harry Chiang, Instructor, Chemical and Environmental Technology.
Mr. Denis also spoke about the numbers of BCIT alumni he meets across the country and the important role they play as decision-makers in many scientific labs. Thermo has also provided significant support to BCIT for an Accela HPLC Chromatography instrument, also housed in the same lab.
