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The Analyzer Technician Competency Model

The Texas Skill Standards Board (TSSB) recognized the Analyzer Technician Competency Model as skill standards for an occupation in 2009.

The competency model was developed by ATOP and Lee College, and funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation.

ATOP worked with national industry experts and representatives from the Analysis Division of the International Society of Automation (ISA), as well as several Texas-based subject matter experts in the development and validation of the model's content.

The Lee College Analytical Instrumentation Certificate

The San Jacinto College Instrumentation Technology Certificate

The petroleum refining and chemical manufacturing industries nationwide have a quantifiable need for analyzer technicians to monitor, maintain, repair and install sampling and analysis equipment.

To meet this challenge, the ATOP program engages students in the study of analytical instruments, emphasizing their use in safety, product analysis, product quality and environmental monitoring and control.

Hands-on analytical instrumentation applications in the ATOP curriculum include gas chromatography, continuous emission monitoring, pH, conductivity, air and water quality, oxygen in gases, spectrophotometric technologies and sampling systems.