Environmental Engineering Technologists and Technicians

Tools and Technology

Tools Include:

• Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectrometers (13C nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectrometers)
• Air pumps (Aeration pumps)
• Reactors or fermenters or digesters (Aerobic laboratory scale reactors)
• Air samplers or collectors (Air monitoring equipment)
• Air velocity and temperature monitors (Air velocity meters)
• Air samplers or collectors (Airborne particulate samplers)
• Isolation glove boxes (Anaerobic laboratory glove bags)
• Reactors or fermenters or digesters (Anaerobic laboratory scale reactors)
• Analytical balances
• Anemometers
• Lasers (Argon lasers)
• Atomic absorption AA spectrometers
• Scanning probe microscopes (Atomic force microscopes)
• Steam autoclaves or sterilizers (Autoclaves)
• Titration equipment (Autotitration systems)
• Laboratory bailers (Bailers)
• Laboratory balances (Balances)
• Laboratory beakers (Beakers)
• Nephelometers (Benchtop nephelometers)
• Refrigerated benchtop centrifuges (Benchtop refrigerated centrifuges)
• Binocular light compound microscopes
• Sample oxidizer (Biological oxidizers)
• HEPA filtered enclosures (Biosafety cabinets)
• Laboratory blenders or emulsifiers (Blenders)
• Penetrometers (California bearing ratio CBR testing devices)
• Calorimeters
• Photo attachments for microscopes (Camera-equipped microscopes)
• Organic carbon analyzers (Carbon analyzers)
• Fume hoods or cupboards (Chemical fume hoods)
• Conductivity meters
• Portable data input terminals (Dataloggers)
• Desktop computers
• Heating or drying equipment or accessories (Dessicator chambers)
• Air samplers or collectors (Dichotomous particulate matter samplers)
• Particle size measuring apparatus (Differential mobility analyzers)
• Reactors or fermenters or digesters (Digester apparatus)
• Digital cameras
• Dissolved oxygen meters
• Surface tension measuring instruments (Drop volume tensiometers)
• Surface tension measuring instruments (Dynamic contact angle apparatus)
• Instrumentation for capillary electrophoresis (Electrophoresis equipment)
• Electrophoresis system accessories (Electrophoresis tanks)
• Microplate readers (Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay ELISA plate readers)
• Fluorescent microscopes (Epifluorescence microscopes)
• Laboratory flasks (Erlenmeyer flasks)
• Orbital shaking water baths (Fecal coliform constant temperature shaker baths)
• Standard fermentation units (Fermenters)
• Dewatering equipment (Filter press simulators)
• Laboratory funnels (Filtering funnels)
• Flame ionization analyzers (Flame ionization detectors FID)
• Scanners (Flatbed scanners)
• Flow injection analysis equipment (Flow injection analyzers)
• Flowmeters (Flow meters)
• Spectrofluorimeters or fluorimeters (Fluorimeters)
• Electrophoresis system accessories (Fraction collectors)
• Freeze dryers or lyopholizers (Freeze dryers)
• Ultra cold or ultralow upright cabinets or freezers (Freezers)
• French pressure cells (French presses)
• Laboratory funnels (Funnels)
• Laboratory safety furnaces (Furnaces)
• Gas chromatographs (Gas chromatographs GC)
• Mass spectrometers (Gas mass spectroscopes)
• Gel documentation systems
• Laboratory adapters or connectors or fittings (Glassware adapters)
• Laboratory heat exchange condensers (Glassware condensers)
• Global positioning system receivers (Global positioning system GPS devices)
• Laboratory graduated cylinders (Graduated cylinders)
• Water samplers (Groundwater pumps)
• Water samplers (Groundwater sampling equipment)
• Hazardous material protective apparel (Hazardous material protective clothing)
• Heated walk in environmental or growth chambers (Heated environmental chambers)
• Heating mantles or tapes (Heating mantles)
• High pressure liquid chromatograph chromatography (High pressure liquid chromatograph HPLC with ultraviolet/visible UV/Vis absorbance detectors)
• Reactors or fermenters or digesters (High-pressure/temperature reactors)
• Benchtop centrifuges (High-speed centrifuges)
• Stirring hotplates (Hot plate stirrers)
• Shaking incubators (Incubator shakers)
• Forced air or mechanical convection general purpose incubators (Incubators)
• Bench refractometers or polarimeters (Interferometeric refractormeters)
• Inverted microscopes
• Ion chromatographs
• Ion selective electrode ISE meters
• Laboratory centrifugal pumps
• Laboratory mechanical convection ovens (Laboratory ovens)
• Laboratory balances (Laboratory scales)
• Orbital shakers (Laboratory shakers)
• Laboratory vacuum pumps
• Laminar flow cabinets or stations (Laminar flow hoods)
• Laser printers
• Robotic or automated liquid handling systems (Liquid handling robots)
• Mass spectrometers (Liquid mass spectroscopes)
• Liquid scintillation counters (Liquid scintillation equipment)
• Chromatographic detectors (Low pressure liquid chromatographs with fraction collectors)
• Reverse osmosis equipment (Low pressure reverse osmosis water treatment systems)
• Magnetic stirrers
• Mainframe computers
• Laboratory mechanical convection ovens (Mechanical convection ovens)
• Chemistry analyzers (Mercury analysis equipment)
• Water meters (Meters)
• Microcentrifuges
• Dropping pipettes (Micropipettes)
• Microscope slides
• Chemiluminescence or bioluminescence analyzers (Microtox toxicity systems)
• Laboratory mixers (Mixer mills)
• Laboratory box furnaces (Muffle furnaces)
• Air samplers or collectors (Multistage agar impactors)
• Notebook computers
• Binocular light compound microscopes (Optical compound microscopes)
• Ozone generator (Ozone bubble contactors)
• Ozone analyzers (Ozone concentration percentage meters)
• Ozone generator (Ozone generators)
• Laboratory balances (Pan balances)
• Electronic counters (Particle counters)
• Optical diffraction apparatus (Particle size analyzers)
• Filtering machinery (Particulate filters)
• Peristaltic pumps
• Personal computers
• pH meters
• Darkfield microscopes (Phase contrast microscopes)
• Photometers
• Inductively coupled plasma ICP spectrometers (Plasma spectrometers)
• PCR enclosures (Polymerase chain reaction PCR equipment)
• Potentiometers (Potentiostats)
• Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectrometers (Proton nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectrometers)
• Reciprocating pumps
• Refrigerated benchtop centrifuges (Refrigerated centrifuges)
• Respirators
• Dissolved carbon dioxide analyzers (Respirometers)
• Vacuum or rotary evaporators (Rotavapors)
• Scanning light or spinning disk or laser scanning microscopes (Scanning microscopes)
• Scanning probe microscopes (Scanning probe microscopes SPM)
• Liquid scintillation counters (Scintillation counters)
• Light scattering equipment (Simultaneous static and dynamic light scattering systems)
• Spectrometers (Single particle spectroscopes)
• Nitrogen or nitrate or nitrite analyzer (Soil carbon-nitrogen CN analyzers)
• Soil testing kits (Soil expansion testers)
• Particle size measuring apparatus (Soil particle size testers)
• Permeability testing apparatus (Soil permeability testers)
• Soil core sampling apparatus (Soil samplers)
• Soil testing kits (Soil vapor sampling equipment)
• Ion selective electrode (Specific ion probes)
• Spectrofluorimeters or fluorimeters (Spectrofluorimeters)
• Spectrophotometers
• Sterilization cabinets (Sterilizer chambers)
• Water analyzers (Streaming current detectors)
• Extracting equipment for laboratories (Supercritical fluid extractors)
• Chemical absorption gas analyzers (Surface area analyzers)
• Multipurpose or general test tubes (Test tubes)
• Thermal conductivity analyzers (Thermal conductivity detectors)
• Thermocouples
• Titration equipment (Titrators)
• Water analyzers (Titrimeters)
• Fluorescent microscopes (Total internal reflection fluorescence TIRF microscopes)
• Organic carbon analyzers (Total organic carbon TOC analyzers)
• Hydrocarbons analyzers or detectors (Total organic halide analyzers)
• Water analyzers (Toxicity analyzers)
• Leak testing equipment (Tracer gas detectors)
• Land drilling rigs (Tractor mounted drill rigs)
• Transmission electron microscopes (Transmission electron microscopes TEM)
• Turbidimeters
• Vortex mixers (Two-vortex mixers)
• Ultra pure water systems
• Ultrafiltration equipment (Ultrafiltration cells)
• Ultrasonic cleaning equipment (Ultrasonic cleaners)
• Spectrofluorimeters or fluorimeters (Ultraviolet UV spectrometers)
• Density gradient fractionators (Universal fractionators)
• Video attachments for microscopes (Video microscopes)
• Spectrometers (Visible spectrometers)
• Water baths
• Bi distillation units (Water distillation units)
• Open stream water level recorders (Water level recorders)
• Water analyzers (Water quality monitors)
• Water samplers
• Water samplers (Water sampling pumps)
• Electrophoresis system accessories (Zeta meters)

Technologies Include:

• Analytical or scientific software

• Ecological risk assessment software
• Air dispersion modeling software
• ANSYS software
• Maplesoft Maple
• Scientific Software Group MIGRATE
• Wolfram Research Mathematica
• LINDO Systems software
• DHI Water and Environment MIKE SHE
• XP Software XPSWMM
• SAS software
• Laboratory information management system LIMS software
• HEC RAS
• Rockwell Automation Arena
• RockWare MODFLOW
• Gas dispersion model software
• Hydrologic simulation program fortan HSPF software
• PerkinElmer Turbochrom
• Neural network modeling software
• Insightful S-PLUS
• Microscopic image capturing software
• Simulation software
• Thermal indoor climate simulation software
• Visual MODFLOW Pro
• Statistical software
• Stochastic modeling software
• Stormwater runoff modeling software
• The MathWorks MATLAB
• WAM software
• Water flow modeling software
• Wind flow modeling software

• Categorization or classification software

• GAEA Technologies WinSieve

• Compliance software

• Environmental health and safety documentation software
• Regulatory compliance management software
• Site remediation management software
• Greenhouse gas management software
• Hazardous materials management software
• Waste management software
• Continuous emission management software
• Material safety data sheet MSDS software

• Computer aided design CAD software

• Autodesk AutoCAD software
• Kubotek CADKEY software
• Mathsoft Mathcad
• SofTech CADRA

• Data base user interface and query software

• eNotebook software
• Microsoft Access
• Database software

• Desktop publishing software

• Adobe Systems Adobe PageMaker

• Development environment software

• National Instruments LabVIEW
• Formula translation/translator FORTRAN

• Document management software

• Gel documentation software

• Electronic mail software

• Email software

• Graphics or photo imaging software

• Photogrammetric software
• Slam software

• Industrial control software

• Fugitive emission leak detection software

• Internet browser software

• Internet browser software

• Map creation software

• Soil mapping software
• Geomechanical design analysis GDA software

• Object or component oriented development software

• Python
• C++

• Office suite software

• Microsoft Office software

• Presentation software

• Presentation software

• Spreadsheet software

• Spreadsheet software
• Microsoft Excel

• Word processing software

• Microsoft Word
• Word processing software

The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet291)