BT 222 - Laboratory Calculations

Credit Hours: 1.0

This course is intended for members of the health, biotechnology and biomanufacturing professions, with potential responsibility for solution preparation, laboratory testing, instrument calibration and quality control calculations. This course will cover the calculations necessary for determination of laboratory concentrations, solutions, and variation, calibration, quality control and reference intervals. The basic units of analytical instrumentation, pH calculations, buffer solutions, spectroscopy, basic statistics and graphing for quality control reference ranges will be discussed.

Course Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

calculate both concentrations and content of solutions in the concentration units used in the biotechnology, biomanufacturing and health professions;
perform dilution calculations when given appropriate information;
calculate the volumes of various stock solutions required to make working solutions for analysis and to make solutions of acids and bases;
calculate the standard deviation, mean, median, mode and coefficient of variation; and
apply the terms accuracy, precision, reliability, confidence intervals and relate these terms to laboratory measurement and determination of reference ranges.

Prerequisites: CH 180 or permission of the instructor
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