March 31, 2007
The University of Central Missouri Department of Chemistry and Physics has selected MeasureNet for equipping its Chemistry division laboratories. MeasureNet capabilities installed at CMSU include probeware for temperature, pressure, pH, and voltage, as well as shared emission and absorption spectroscopy via the network's shared 1-nanometer resolution UV-vis spectrometer.
The University began its life in 1871, and was formally transformed into a teachers college in 1919. Today, its 1,561 acre campus is home to over 10,600 graduate and undergraduate students. Located about 50 miles southeast of Kansas City, the school is still noted for its teacher training programs—the University produces more graduates in the field of Education than any other institution in the state. Notable alumni include Carrie Evens—leader of the U.S. Temperance Movement, James Evans—the inventor of Cheerios cereal, and David Steward—CEO of World Wide Technology, Inc., the world's largest African-American owned company
"We are pleased to have such a prestigious Missouri institution as part of the MeasureNet Community ," says MeasureNet President Robert Voorhees. "I'd like to thank Professor Renee Cole (Physical Chemistry and Chemical Education) for her vision and tenacity, Chair Wayne Stalick, and the department's Steve Boone (Interim Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences) for their support." Using a cluster of 700 PCs, Professor Boone and his colleague Curtis Cooper discovered the largest known prime number (M32,582,657) in September, 2006 operating as part of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS).
MeasureNet Technology Ltd. manufactures patented, network-based data acquisition interfaces for science teaching laboratories. It is a spin-off of the University of Cincinnati's Department of Chemistry and is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. Measurenet's award-winning, PC-reducing design helps reduce laboratory maintenance and operational costs while giving students access to high quality shared UV-vis spectroscopy, gas chromatograph and HPLC connectivity, and an array of innovative probeware. Its acclaimed intuitive design provides improved transparency to enable better science-focused learning. Winner of the Ohio Governor's Award For Excellence in Energy Efficiency, MeasureNet networks are found in universities, community colleges, high schools, and vocational training centers across the United States and around the world.
For more information contact:
Len Weibel
Director of Business Development
tel. toll-free: 866-396-6765
lenweibel@measurenet-tech.com
March 31, 2007
The Chemistry Department of Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville, Tennessee has selected MeasureNet to update data acquisition capabilities in its General Chemistry Laboratories. Former Department Chair Professor Scott Northrup and his colleague Professor Thomas Furtsch will spearhead MeasureNet's integration into the first-year curriculum. MeasureNet networks are replacing calculator-based interfaces used by students over the past decade.
First opening its doors as Dixie College in 1912, Tennessee Polytechnic Institute began its early life with just 13 faculty members and 19 students in 1916. The original campus began as a daisy field of 18 undeveloped acres, an administrative building, and two dormitories. The town of Cookeville served as a whistle stop for locomotives on the Tennessee Central Railroad between Nashville and Knoxville in those early days and its said that faculty would greet students at the train depot to escort them to the school. Today, the university has grown to 87 buildings on a 235-acre campus with 370 faculty and nearly 8,000 students (2006).
U.S. News & World Report ranked Tennessee Tech University as one of the top eleven public universities in the South in its 2007 America's Best Colleges guide. Placed in the top ranking for five years, the University remains the only Tennessee school to be ranked as a Top Public University in the South according to the guide. Tennessee Tech also was rated by The Princeton Review as a "Best Southeastern College" in 2006 for the third time. It was one of four public institutions in the state to garner the rating. Top quality academics, low cost and exceptional financial aid service earned TTU a spot in the 2007 America's Best Value Colleges guidebook published by the Princeton Review and Random House.
"Tennessee Tech is a greatly admired institution with a growing reputation and we're please to have them as partners," says MeasureNet President Robert Voorhees. "We congratulate Scott Northrup and his colleagues on their decision and admire their foresight and tenacity. We'd also like to thank Chair Professor Jeffery Boles for his assistance and support."
MeasureNet installations now stretch across from east to west in the Volunteer State and include other institutions such as Tennessee State, University of Tennessee Knoxville, and the University of Memphis.
MeasureNet Technology Ltd. manufactures patented, network-based data acquisition interfaces for science teaching laboratories. It is a spin-off of the University of Cincinnati's Department of Chemistry and is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. Measurenet's award-winning, PC-reducing design helps reduce laboratory maintenance and operational costs while giving students access to high quality shared UV-vis spectroscopy, gas chromatograph and HPLC connectivity, and an array of innovative probeware. Its acclaimed intuitive design provides improved transparency to enable better science-focused learning. Winner of the Ohio Governor's Award For Excellence in Energy Efficiency, MeasureNet networks are found in universities, community colleges, high schools, and vocational training centers across the United States and around the world.
For more information contact:
Len Weibel
Director of Business Development
tel. toll-free: 866-396-6765
lenweibel@measurenet-tech.com
December 23, 2006
Inter American University and the University of Puerto Rico in Ponce have purchased MeasureNet systems for their chemistry laboratories to bolster ongoing efforts to better train and prepare students for future science research and employment. The two institutions join Pontifical Catholic University in featuring MeasureNet in their chemistry teaching laboratories—making all major 4-year college programs in Puerto Rico's southern cultural and economic center MeasureNet users.
Known as "Ciudad de los Leones," Ponce was founded by the grandson of Spanish explorer Ponce de León in 1692 and is presently Puerto Rico's third largest metropolitan area numbering 264,000. Elegant neoclassical Spanish architecture graces the central plaza and surrounding residential neighborhoods. Pastel-washed buildings fan out along turquoise-hued marble sidewalks housing everything from dance studios to cafes. Ponce boasts what is arguably the finest art museum in the Caribbean, as well as the famous red and black "Parque de Bombas:" a fire station turned museum commemorating the efforts of firemen in 1883 who saved the town and much of the island's south coast from a raging fire.
Puerto Rico itself is a major commercial center in the Caribbean and has considerable pharmaceutical-related infrastructure that employs many in the sciences. The island's American Chemical Society student affiliates are regarded as some of the most active in all of the United States.
Inter American University of Ponce was founded in 1910 and is located on the south-eastern quadrant of the city. It's 30 acre campus is home to over 5,100 students and is part of the larger nine-campus Inter American University system founded in San German in 1912. The Ponce campus offers degree programs in Biomedical Sciences, Radiological Science, and Optical Science Technologies.
The University of Puerto Rico-Ponce is just south of the city center near the Ponce Playa interchange of the island's main toll road. It hosts some 3,400 students offering a variety of degree programs including ones in Health Care and Life Sciences. UPR-Ponce is the first branch of Puerto Rico's public university system to employ MeasureNet in its teaching laboratories.
"We are very pleased by the adoption of UPR-Ponce as the first of the UPR campuses to use MeasureNet. I am very grateful for the patient efforts of its Chemistry department and allied administrative personnel who made MeasureNet a top priority," says MeasureNet President Robert Voorhees. "Inter American-Ponce is also a significant and prestigious addition to our company's user family" Voorhees adds, "These two institutions are true leaders in Puerto Rico for giving their students the most advanced tool available to prepare students for real-world chemistry."
Inter American and UPR-Ponce join the city's Pontifical Catholic University, the Caribbean's first user of MeasureNet. Its department recently authored MeasureNet's first General Chemistry Laboratory Manual in Spanish and has been active in promoting the benefits of MeasureNet across the island. Pontifical Catholic University's Professor Myriam Quintana and Carmen Collazo presented research at the 2004 San Diego American Chemical Society National Conference documenting the positive impact of their MeasureNet Networks on the program's curriculum and student learning experience.
MeasureNet Technology Ltd. manufactures patented, network-based data acquisition interfaces for science teaching laboratories. It is a spin-off of the University of Cincinnati's Department of Chemistry and is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. Measurenet's award-winning, PC-reducing design helps reduce laboratory maintenance and operational costs while giving students access to high quality shared UV-vis spectroscopy, gas chromatograph connectivity, and an array of innovative probeware. Its acclaimed intuitive design provides improved transparency to enable better science-focused, not technology-focused, learning. Winner of the Ohio Governor's Award For Excellence in Energy Efficiency, MeasureNet networks are found in universities, community colleges, high schools, and vocational training centers across the United States and around the world.
For more information contact:
Len Weibel
Director of Business Development
tel. toll-free: 866-396-6765
lenweibel@measurenet-tech.com
December 3, 2006
The Chemistry Department of Centenary College of Louisiana has chosen MeasureNet for electronic data acquisition for multiple areas of its laboratory program. Founded in 1825, the Methodist institution is the oldest chartered liberal arts college west of the Mississippi and the 46th oldest institution in the nation. Centenary's Chemistry Department is installing two MeasureNet networks that include capabilities for shared UV-vis spectroscopy, gas chromatogram connectivity, and connectivity for legacy Ultraspec 1000 scanning spectrometers.
With only 920 undergraduates, the school boasts an aggressive science curriculum that enrolls some 100 students yearly in General Chemistry. The department's Organic Chemistry typically reaches 50 students. Centenary College ranks as one of the country's top 200 colleges for science according to the Peterson Guide and is ranked in top tier categories for quality and value in Barron's, Princeton Review, and U.S. News and World Report guides to higher education. The school's overall student/faculty ratio stands at 12:1.
Various Department of Chemistry projects are supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and MeasureNet is explicitly employed to build skills that support NASA objectives in space exploration and analysis of global climate change. Faculty plan to employ MeasureNet in a series of "discovery" style experiments that will cover acid-base titrations, calorimetry, gas chromatography, and spectrophotometry. MeasureNet's UV-vis spectrometer will be used to explore the composition of sunscreens and perform elemental analyses of water.
"Centenary has an impressive reputation and is typical of the innovative, learning-centric programs that populate the MeasureNet user community," says MeasureNet President Robert Voorhees. "We look forward to cooperating with them to support their teaching goals and undergraduate research endeavors."
MeasureNet Technology Ltd. manufactures patented, network-based data acquisition interfaces for science teaching laboratories. It is a spin-off of the University of Cincinnati's Department of Chemistry and is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. Measurenet's award-winning, PC-reducing design helps reduce laboratory maintenance and operational costs while giving students access to high quality shared UV-vis spectroscopy, gas chromatograph connectivity, and an array of innovative probeware. Its acclaimed intuitive design provides improved transparency to enable better science-focused, not technology-focused, learning. Winner of the Ohio Governor's Award For Excellence in Energy Efficiency, MeasureNet networks are found in universities, community colleges, high schools, and vocational training centers across the United States and around the world.
For more information contact:
Len Weibel
Director of Business Development
tel. toll-free: 866-396-6765
lenweibel@measurenet-tech.com
December 3, 2006
The Chemistry Department of Harper College has selected MeasureNet to provide data acquisition for multiple labs in its General Chemistry Program. Located in Palatine, Illinois, the college was founded in 1965 and its modern 200-acre campus hosts nearly 26,000 students from a diverse range of socio-economic backgrounds.
The Chemistry Department is housed in the new Technology, Mathematics, and Science Division (erected in 2005) and its goals include enhancing science literacy, preparing students for careers as chemistry technicians, and transitioning students to chemistry programs at 4-year institutions. Harper was recently awarded a US$ 3,000,000 National Science Foundation grant for promoting hands-on research at the 2-year college level.
"We're proud to be associated with Harper College," says MeasureNet President Robert Voorhees. "Like MeasureNet, Chemistry at Harper focuses on preparing students for real-world employment and enabling hands-on research. Our networks are highly intuitive for the new learner, yet powerful enough to be used in a variety of research settings. I know we'll be a great fit into the Harper program."
Harper is the third recent community college in the greater Chicago area to adopt MeasureNet. The chemistry departments at the College of Dupage in Glen Ellyn and Triton College in River Grove have both upgraded from PC-based LabWorks® interfaces to MeasureNet networks.
MeasureNet Technology Ltd. manufactures patented, network-based data acquisition interfaces for science teaching laboratories. It is a spin-off of the University of Cincinnati's Department of Chemistry and is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. Measurenet's award-winning, PC-reducing design helps reduce laboratory maintenance and operational costs while giving students access to high quality shared UV-vis spectroscopy, gas chromatograph connectivity, and an array of innovative probeware. Its acclaimed intuitive design provides improved transparency to enable better science-focused, not technology-focused, learning. Winner of the Ohio Governor's Award For Excellence in Energy Efficiency, MeasureNet networks are found in universities, community colleges, high schools, and vocational training centers across the United States and around the world.
For more information contact:
Robert Voorhees
President
tel. toll-free: 866-396-6765
voorhees@measurenet-tech.com
October 5, 2006
The College of San Mateo has made great strides to swiftly and comprehensively incorporate MeasureNet into its General Chemistry lab program. The community college recently completed an impressive Science Complex that boasts state of the art laboratories, as well as a new planetarium and 20-inch telescope. The 2-year college campus is nestled in high ground just to the east of the San Francisco State Fish and Game Refuge, with its new chemistry labs having impressive views of the Bay below.
Under the lead of instructor Michael Clay, the Chemistry Department put MeasureNet to work within two weeks of its arrival. Using experiments adapted and devised during Clay's recent sabbatical at Arizona State University, the department is currently on track to employ its two Networks in 31 experiments during the two-semester General Chemistry sequence. This marks an unprecedented level of utilization in the MeasureNet user community.
Aside from normal probeware (temperature, pressure, pH, drop counters voltage, and multi-function colorimeters), numerous experiments utilize MeasureNet's manual entry feature to organize non-MeasureNet data into spreadsheet format. Students conveniently access an entire lab's data via the department's LAN, while instructors then have student data sets from each period 'swept' into a single spreadsheet for easier viewing and analysis.
"Because of its network design," according to Clay, "MeasureNet is ideally suited for use as a 'data center,' enabling the direct entry of student data acquired from attached probeware, as well as convenient manual entry. Students then have their own and others data aggregated conveniently for analysis using spreadsheets. No other interface enables this so seamlessly as MeasureNet."
Clay's individual experiments will be available to MeasureNet users in early 2007. Contact MeasureNet for more details.
San Mateo's CHEM 210 and 220 Experiments Incorporating MeasureNet
Lab02 Accuracy of A Graduated Beaker
Lab03 Volumetric Glassware
Lab04 Measurement And Significant Figures
Lab05 Density of An Unknown Liquid
Lab06 Density of Glass Beads
Lab11 Avogadro's Number
Lab12 Molar Mass Titration
Lab13 Gas Laws
Lab14 Calorimeter Constant
Lab15 Specific Heat Of An Unknown Metal
Lab16 Hess' Law
Lab18 Heat of Fusion of Ice
Lab19 Phosphate In Detergent
Lab20 Freezing Point Depression (Molar Mass Of Sugars)
Lab22 Heat Of Combustion
Lab03 Rates Of Reaction
Lab05 Keq Value: Ethyl Acetate
Lab06 Acids and Bases: Introduction to pH
Lab07 Keq of a Weak Acid
Lab08 Titration Curves – pH vs Volume of Base
Lab09 Weak Acid Titration
Lab10 Hydrolysis
Lab11 Buffers
Lab12 Solubility Ksp Determination
Lab13 Enthalpy, Entropy, and Free Energy
Lab15 Electrochemical Cells
Lab16 Nernst Equation
Lab17 Coordination Compound
Lab18 Colligative Properties – Freezing Point
Lab19 Ion Exchange of Sea Water
Lab20 Keq of FeSCN
> Review of MeasureNet on General Chemistry Program at The College of San Mateo
MeasureNet Technology Ltd. manufactures patented, network-based data acquisition interfaces for science teaching laboratories. It is a spin-off of the University of Cincinnati's Department of Chemistry and is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. Measurenet's award-winning, PC-reducing design helps reduce laboratory maintenance and operational costs while giving students access to high quality shared UV-vis spectroscopy, gas chromatograph connectivity, high-pressure liquid chromatograph connectivity, and an array of innovative probeware. Its acclaimed intuitive design provides improved transparency to enable better science-focused, not technology-focused, learning. Winner of the Ohio Governor's Award For Excellence in Energy Efficiency, MeasureNet networks are found in universities, community colleges, high schools, and vocational training centers across the United States and around the world.
For more information contact:
Len Weibel
Director of Business Development
tel. toll-free: 866-396-6765
lenweibel@measurenet-tech.com
August 1, 2006
The Chemistry Department of Xavier University has chosen MeasureNet for electronic data acquisition in multiple areas of its laboratory program. Two twelve-station networks are being installed with probeware that includes capabilities for titrations, thermo-chemistry, and gas law analysis.
The college’s urban Cincinnati, Ohio campus was founded in 1831 and serves over 6,600 students annually. The university has 294 full-time faculty giving it an average class size of 22 a student faculty ratio of 13:1. Xavier ranks third overall amongst 142 Midwestern colleges and universities in the 2006 edition of U.S. News and World Report "America’s Best Colleges." The 2006 Princeton Review’s “The Best 361 Colleges” includes Xavier as one of the best institutions for undergraduate education in the United States.
"We are excited to have Xavier on board," noted MeasureNet President Robert Voorhees. "Needless to say, they have an impressive academic reputation that reaches well beyond the region. Also, their close proximity to users at the University of Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky University has the potential to encourage a number of interesting synergies in areas of probeware and curriculum development."
MeasureNet Technology Ltd. manufactures patented, network-based data acquisition interfaces for science teaching laboratories. It is a spin-off of the University of Cincinnati's Department of Chemistry and is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. Measurenet's award-winning, PC-reducing design helps reduce laboratory maintenance and operational costs while giving students access to high quality shared UV-vis spectroscopy, gas chromatograph connectivity, and an array of innovative probeware. Its acclaimed intuitive design provides improved transparency to enable better science-focused, not technology-focused, learning. Winner of the Ohio Governor's Award For Excellence in Energy Efficiency, MeasureNet networks are found in universities, community colleges, high schools, and vocational training centers across the United States and around the world.
For more information contact:
Len Weibel
Director of Business Development
tel. toll-free: 866-396-6765
lenweibel@measurenet-tech.com
June 26, 2006
Triton College in River Grove, Illinois has purchased a MeasureNet® network to replace LabWorks® as its primary system for electronic data acquisition in General Chemistry. It joins the College of Dupage in nearby Glen Ellyn as the first two campus's equipped with MeasureNet in the Chicago metropolitan area.
Triton's 100-acre campus lies just 14 miles west of downtown Chicago and serves some 17,000 persons per semester while maintaining an average class size of just 20.4 students. In addition to small class sizes, the college boasts state-of-the-art facilities and low tuition fees that save students an average of 90% versus nearby traditional 4-year programs. Triton's Associates Degree in Chemistry is a springboard to employment as a laboratory technician, while also preparing many for four-year programs that lead to eventual careers in medicine, dentistry, and veterinary science.
"Triton's strong reputation is based, in part, on its practical curriculum that year after year sends well-prepared graduates successfully into the workplace" said MeasureNet's Director of Marketing Michael Kurutz. " It's a perfect fit as MeasureNet was designed to operate with the 'look and feel' of instrumentation found in real-world science employment. MeasureNet's acclaimed intuitive design means students spend more time learning chemistry and less time on the facilitating technology."
MeasureNet Technology Ltd. manufactures patented, network-based data acquisition interfaces for science teaching laboratories. It is a spin-off of the University of Cincinnati's Department of Chemistry and is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. Measurenet's award-winning, PC-reducing design helps reduce laboratory maintenance and operational costs while giving students access to high quality shared UV-vis spectroscopy, gas chromatograph connectivity, and an array of innovative probeware. Its acclaimed intuitive design provides improved transparency to enable better science-focused, not technology-focused, learning. Winner of the Ohio Governor's Award For Excellence in Energy Efficiency, MeasureNet networks are found in universities, community colleges, high schools, and vocational training centers across the United States and around the world.
For more information contact:
Len Weibel
Director of Business Development
tel. toll-free: 866-396-6765
lenweibel@measurenet-tech.com
June 15 , 2006
Capilano College in North Vancouver, British Columbia has chosen MeasureNet for use in multiple chemistry lab sections. It is the first MeasureNet institutional user in the Canadian province. Known as "Cap College," the institution opened its first permanent campus in the Lynmour area of North Vancouver in 1973. Its scenic 34-acre campus is home to some 7,200 students. The area of North Vancouver is in a temperate rainforest zone sandwiched between the waters of Burrad Inlet and the majestic North Shore Mountains that reach above 1,400 meters within earshot of the Pacific.
Unlike other institutions of higher learning in British Columbia, Capilano College assigns programs into broad programmatic titles instead of traditional faculties. These include Liberal Arts, Science and Technology, Business and Professional Studies, Tourism and Outdoor Recreation, Health and Education, and Fine and Applied Arts. Capilano is also a leading institution in British Columbia for preparatory education that assists non-traditional students in enhancing employment and language skills. The school has one of the most successful university transfer programs in all of Canada.
"We're very happy about Capilano's choice." stated MeasureNet President Robert Voorhees. "Canada plays an important part in our strategy for international growth and customers there can be assured that they'll receive the same high-quality receive service we deliver to MeasureNet's U.S. institutions." Voorhees added that the weakening of the U.S. dollar by more that 20% versus many currencies in the past year has made MeasureNet even more attractive to export customers. "Combining MeasureNet's low operational costs with the currency-related discount is an unprecedented windfall for chemistry departments abroad."
MeasureNet Technology Ltd. manufactures patented, network-based data acquisition interfaces for science teaching laboratories. It is a spin-off of the University of Cincinnati's Department of Chemistry and is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. Measurenet's award-winning, PC-reducing design helps reduce laboratory maintenance and operational costs while giving students access to high quality shared UV-vis spectroscopy, gas chromatograph connectivity, and an array of innovative probeware. It's acclaimed intuitive design provides improved transparency to enable better science-focused, not technology-focused, learning. Winner of the Ohio Governor's Award For Excellence in Energy Efficiency, MeasureNet networks are found in universities, community colleges, high schools, and vocational training centers across the United States and around the world.
For more information contact:
Len Weibel
Director of Business Development
tel. toll-free: 866-396-6765
lenweibel@measurenet-tech.com