Top Ranked Virginia Tech Program Chooses MeasureNet For New Labs

Virigina Tech Chemistry services some 3,000 students per semester. Freshman students entering this Fall (2004) will now have network-powered data collection from MeasureNet in six, newly-built freshman chemistry laboratories on its main campus in Blacksburg.

Each 12-station network features MeasureNet's new diode-array UV-vis spectrometer (200-800 nm range and one-nm resolution). The networked spectrometer enables up to 12 student pairs to utilize the instrument. Each spectrometer will used for emission and absorption experiments in Virginia Tech's freshman program, in addition to other probeware.. The program is ranked in the top 75 U.S. undergraduate programs by the National Research Council.