Technology Skills and Tools Feedback Process

Analytical or scientific software

• Ansys Fluent
• Aurora HelioScope
• Data acquisition software
• Data visualization software
• Energy-10
• Finite element method FEM software
• HOMER Micropower Optimization Model
• National Instruments Compact FieldPoint System
• Optical Physics Technologies SUN_CHART
• PV Optics
• PVsyst
• Regional Energy Deployment System ReEDS
• RETScreen
• Simple Model of the Atmospheric Radiative Transfer of Sunshine SMARTS
• Simulation software
• Solar Advisor Model
• Solar and Wind Energy Resource Assessment SWERA
• SOLAR-2
• SolTrace
• The MathWorks MATLAB

Computer aided design CAD software

• Autodesk AutoCAD
• Autodesk AutoCAD LT
• Autodesk Revit
• Computer aided design and drafting CADD software
• Dassault Systemes SolidWorks
• IMSI TurboCAD
• Trimble SketchUp Pro

Customer relationship management CRM software

• Salesforce software

Data base user interface and query software

• Database software
• Microsoft Access
• Structured query language SQL

Development environment software

• Microsoft Visual Basic
• Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications VBA
• National Instruments LabVIEW
• Software development tools

Electronic mail software

• Microsoft Outlook

Enterprise resource planning ERP software

• Oracle Hyperion

Geographic information system

• ETAP
• Geographic information system GIS systems

Industrial control software

• Supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA software

Mobile location based services software

• Global positioning system GPS software

Object or component oriented development software

• C++
• Python
• R

Office suite software

• Microsoft Office software

Operating system software

• Bash
• Linux

Presentation software

• Microsoft PowerPoint

Process mapping and design software

• Microsoft Visio

Program testing software

• Debugging software

Project management software

• Microsoft Project

Spreadsheet software

• Microsoft Excel

Web platform development software

• JavaScript

Word processing software

• Microsoft Word

Abrasion testers

Ageing ovens

• Accelerated weathering machines
• Solar simulators

Ammeters

• Picoammeters
• Recording ammeters

Analytical balances

• High-precision balances

Atomic absorption AA spectrometers

• Atomic absorption spectrometers

Binocular light compound microscopes

• Optical compound microscopes

Brushless motor DC

• Direct current DC power supplies

Calorimeters

• Differential scanning calorimeters

Capacitance meters

• Inductance capacitance resistance LCR meters

Colorimeters

• Spectrocolorimeters

Compression testers

Coulometers

• Flow coulometric detectors

Creep testers

Electrical frequency meters

• Phase angle meters

Electrometers

Extruders

• Film extruders

Fatigue testers

Fish tape

• Pull testers

Flexure or transverse testing machines

• Flexure testers

Frequency calibrator or simulator

• Photovoltaic array simulators

Goniometers or arthrometers

Graphic recorders

• Current versus voltage IV curve tracers

Graphics tablets

Hand held camcorders or video cameras

• Video cameras

Hardness testers

Hipot testers

Impact testers

Infrared dryers

• Ultraviolet UV exposure units

Infrared imagers

• Infrared cameras

Infrared spectrometers

• Fourier transform infrared FTIR spectrometers

Isolation glove boxes

• Inert atmosphere glove boxes

Laboratory evaporators

• Electron beam evaporators
• Vacuum evaporators

Laboratory mechanical convection ovens

• Bench ovens
• Humidity ovens

Laminators

• Vacuum laminators

Laser fax machine

• Laser facsimile machines

Laser printers

Lasers

Liquid chromatographs

• Liquid chromatographs LC

Load frame

• Load frames

Mass spectrometers

Megohmmeters

• Meggers

Metal testing instruments

• Adhesion testers

Moisture meters

• Moisture analyzers

Multi gas monitors

• Permeation testers

Optical character recognition systems

• Optical scanners

Orbital shakers

• Mechanical shakers

Personal computers

pH meters

Photocopiers

• Copy machines

Plotter printers

• Plotters

Pocket calculator

• Hand calculators

Polarimeters

• Polarographic analyzers

Portable data input terminals

• Data loggers

Potentiometers

• Chronopotentiometers
• Potentiostats

Power meters

• Apparent power meters
• Power quality meters
• Reactive power meters

Refrigerated and heated reach in environmental or growth chambers

• Environmental chambers

Resistance thermometers

• Digital resistance thermometers

Rheometers

Roughness measuring instruments

• Surface profilometers

Scanning electron microscopes

• Field emission scanning electron microscopes FESEM
• Scanning electron microscopes SEM

Scanning probe microscopes

• Scanning probe microscopes SPM

Semiconductor process systems

• Focused ion beam FIB systems
• Ion beam assisted deposition IBAD systems
• Ion mills
• Mask aligners
• Micromanipulators
• Plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition PECVD systems
• Spin coaters
• Sputtering systems

Semiconductor testers

• Lifetime testers

Shear strength testers

• Shear testers

Signal generators

• Digital pattern generators

Solar radiation surface observing apparatus

• Irradiance detectors
• Pyranometers

Spectrometers

• Auger electron spectrometers
• Electron energy loss spectrometers
• Energy dispersive x-ray spectrometers EDS
• Photoluminescence spectrometers
• Raman spectrometers
• Reflectance spectrometers
• X-ray photoelectron spectrometers

Spectrophotometers

• Fluorescence spectrophotometers

Strain gauges

Temperature cycling chambers or thermal cyclers

• Thermal cyclers

Tension testers

• Tensile testers

Thermo gravimetry analyzers

• Thermogravimetric analyzers

Thermocouples

• Thermopiles

Thickness measuring devices

• Spectroscopic ellipsometers

Transmission electron microscopes

• Transmission electron microscopes TEM

Tube furnaces

• Laboratory tube furnaces

Ultrasonic cleaning equipment

• Ultrasonic cleaners

Vacuum ovens

Videoscopes

• Digital imaging microscopes

Voltage or current meters

• Voltmeters

X ray diffraction equipment

• X ray diffractometers