Technology Skills and Tools Feedback Process

Analytical or scientific software

• Best Linear Unbiased Prediction BLUP
• Cowculator
• COWGAME
• Deoxyribonucleic acid DNA sequence analysis software
• FEEDLOT CALC
• Master Ration Calculator
• Nutrition Balance Analyzer NUTBAL
• SAS
• VSNi ASReml
• VSNi GenStat

Business intelligence and data analysis software

• Tableau

Computer aided design CAD software

• Autodesk AutoCAD

Data base user interface and query software

• DAGRIS
• Database software
• Domestic Animal Diversity Information Service DAD-IS
• Microsoft Access
• Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals OMIA
• Structured query language SQL

Electronic mail software

• Email software

Enterprise resource planning ERP software

• Oracle PeopleSoft

Geographic information system

• ESRI ArcGIS software

Human resources software

• Oracle HRIS

Internet browser software

• Web browser software

Office suite software

• Microsoft Office software

Presentation software

• Microsoft PowerPoint

Spreadsheet software

• Microsoft Excel

Word processing software

• Microsoft Word

Analytical balances

• Analytic balances

Animal husbandry equipment

• Animal catching equipment
• Animal feeders
• Animal heater lamps
• Artificial insemination kits
• Calf pullers
• Cattle squeeze chutes
• Computerized cattle feeders
• Dehorners
• Ear punches

Animal weighing scales

• Cattle scales
• Livestock scales

Atomic absorption AA spectrometers

Benchtop centrifuges

Binocular light compound microscopes

• Optical compound microscopes

Blood collection syringes

Calorimeters

• Bomb calorimeters

Chopping machinery

• Meat choppers

Circulating baths

• Circulating water baths

Commercial use food grinders

• Meat grinders

Conductivity meters

• Conductance meters

Densitometers

• Laser densitometers
• Scanning densitometers

Deoxyribonucleic sequence analyzers

• Deoxyribonucleic acid DNA sequencers

Desktop computers

Dropping pipettes

• Glass pipettes

Dry wall single chamber carbon dioxide incubators

• Automatic carbon dioxide CO2 incubators

Drying cabinets or ovens

• Laboratory drying ovens

Electrophoresis system accessories

• Fraction collectors

Feed mixers

• Animal feed mixers

Freeze dryers or lyopholizers

• Freeze dryers

Fume hoods or cupboards

• Laboratory fume hoods

Gas burners

• Bunsen burners

Gas chromatographs

• Gas chromatographs GC

Gel documentation systems

• Gel electrophoresis equipment

Gel dryers

• Slab dryers

Handheld thermometer

• Handheld digital thermometers

Hematology analyzers

• Animal blood analyzers

High pressure liquid chromatograph chromatography

• High pressure liquid chromatograph HPLC equipment

Histology sampling and dissecting stations

• Dissecting kits

Homogenizers

Hybridization ovens or incubators

• Hybridization chambers

Hydrometers

Immersion circulators

• Ultrasonic water baths

Incubators or brooders for poultry

• Brooders
• Poultry incubators

Infrared spectrometers

• Infrared IR spectrometers

Laboratory balances

• Electronic laboratory balances

Laboratory beakers

• Graduated beakers

Laboratory flasks

• Erlenmeyer flasks
• Volumetric flasks

Laboratory graduated cylinders

• Graduated cylinders

Laboratory vacuum pumps

Laminar flow cabinets or stations

• Laminar flow cabinets

Liquid scintillation counters

Medical ultrasound or doppler or echocardiograph probes

• Ultrasound probes

Microcentrifuges

• Microultracentrifuges

Microscope slides

Notebook computers

• Laptop computers

Orbital shaking water baths

Oxygen sensors

• Oxygen meters

Personal computers

Petri plates or dishes

• Petri dishes

Photo attachments for microscopes

• Imaging microscopes

Rapid amplification or complementary deoxyribonucleic acid ends RACE technology products

• Polymerase chain reaction PCR equipment

Reactors or fermenters or digesters

• Fiber digesters

Refrigerated benchtop centrifuges

Restraints

• Calf restraints

Scientific calculator

• Scientific calculators

Specimen collection container

• Specimen collection containers

Spectrophotometers

• Fluorescence spectrophotometers
• Ultraviolet UV visible spectrophotometers

Steam autoclaves or sterilizers

• Steam autoclaves

Stirring hotplates

• Hot plate stirrers

Stunner

• Captive bolt stunners
• Electric stunners

Tissue culture incubators

Triple beam balances

Ultracentrifuges

Vacuum blood collection tubes or containers

• Evacuated blood collection tubes

Vacuum ovens

• Laboratory vacuum ovens

Veterinary castration instruments

• Veterinary emasculators

Veterinary injection or suction unit

• Balling guns

Water baths

• Laboratory water baths