Skills in component selection and integration, operations and maintenance of research lab instruments such as gas chromatographs, mass flow controllers, HPLC, FTIR, UV/VIS and mass spectrometers, chemical reactor and distillation systems, along with life sciences instrumentation and processes including ultracentrifugation, bioreactor design and operations, protein and peptide synthesis and purification, and best practices with lab instrument piping, tube bending and tube fitting selection. Colburn Lab represents one of the most complex and high-risk laboratory buildings on campus, housing 75% of the department’s researchers as well as its undergraduate training operation, and supporting wet laboratory experimentation ranging from chemical reactor design, to x-ray and laser-based analysis of materials systems, to manipulation of complex microbial and mammalian cellular systems.