Course I: Forensic Chromatography (focus on GC-FID for EtOH testing and introduction to toxicological samples)
[no prior knowledge or prerequisite to take]
Day 1
| 8:15 am | Registration and Snacks |
| 8:30 am | Course Overview and Welcome Remarks |
| 9:00 am | Introduction to Gas Chromatography |
| 10:00 am | Inlet Systems for Liquid Injections |
| 11:00 am | GC Theory |
| 11:45 am | Lunch (included in the tuition) |
| 1:00 pm | Lab 1: GC Familiarization and Parameters |
| 2:30 pm | GC Resolution |
| 3:30 pm | Capillary Columns |
| 4:30 pm | Lab 2: Column Installation |
| 6:30 pm | End of Session |
Day 2
| 8:30 am | Quantitative Analysis |
| 9:30 am | Method Validation Introduction to Uncertainty Measurement |
| 10:30 am | Lab 3: GC Quantitation |
| 11:45 am | Lunch (included in the tuition) |
| 1:00 pm | Lab Review |
| 2:00 pm | Headspace GC |
| 4:00 pm | Lab 4: Headspace Demo |
| 5:00 pm | End of Session |
Day 3
| 8:30 am | FID Detector |
| 9:00 am | Introduction to GC/MS |
| 9:45 am | Labs 5-7: Wet Lab –Sample Preparation/ Integration / GC-MS Instrumentation |
| 11:45am | Lunch (included in the tuition) |
| 1:00 pm | Discovery |
| 2:30 pm | Ethics |
| 3:30 pm | Pre-analytical Related Error |
| 4:30 pm | Live Demo: Sample prep from beginning to injection of a blood ethanol sample |
| 5:30 pm | Optional Lab 11: Beers and Data Roundtable (Bring your own data set evaluate with your small group) |
| 7:00 pm | End of Session |
Day 4
| 8:30 am | General Review of Major Concepts |
| 9:00 am | Lab 8: Walking Down a Case-How to Sort, Identify and Examine Data (Confrontation Clause) |
| 10:30 am | Developing Themes for Cases |
| 12:00 pm | Lunch (included in the tuition) |
| 1:00 pm | Cross examination of an Analyst |
| 2:30 pm | Direct Examination of an Expert |
| 4:00 pm | Review & Closing |
| 4:30 pm | Soft Stop |
| 5:30 pm | Hard Stop-End of Course |