Partnership I Building

These are research and educational facilities of the National Center for Forensic Science
A program of the National Institute of Justice hosted by the University of Central Florida

Environmental Assessment

Lecture Hall
Room 102

Size: 1125 sq ft
Seating capacity: 75
Facilities available: A/V equipment: LCD projector, overhead projector, document camera, VCR, internet access, electric screen.

Wet Teaching Laboratory #1
Room 221

Size: 1080 sq ft
Seating capacity: 42
Facilities available: White Board, Projector Screen, Data Ports, Small Wet Lab Bench

Scanning Electron Microscope
Room 121

Size:
Seating capacity:
Facilities available: Electron Microscopy lab contains an etcher/sputter coater for sample preparation and a Scanning Electron Microscope with the following detectors; backscatter, secondary electron, variable pressure secondary electron, and EDS for X-ray microanalysis

Sensitive Instrument Lab #1
Room 310

Size: 450 sq ft
Seating capacity: 8
Facilities available: Instrument lab containing two gas chromatograph/mass spectrometers (GC/MS). One instrument is dedicated to the Ignitable Liquids Reference Collection.

Size: 600 sq ft
Seating capacity: 12
Facilities available: Contains two liquid chromatography/mass spectrometers (LC/MS): a Thermo-Finnigan LCQ-DUO LC/MS/MS ion trap mass spectrometer and an Agilent LC/MSD HP 1100 quadruple mass spectrometer. Both instruments are being used for research of explosive residues and of dyes.

Microscopy Laboratory
Room 313

Size: 600 sq ft
Seating capacity: 12
Facilities available: Microscopy Lab used for microscopic sample preparation and analysis. Contains a Fourier Transform Infrared microscope, Nikon polarized light microscope with dark field, fluorescence, DIC and video capabilities, and a stereomicroscope.

Computer Forensics Training Lab
Room 315

Size: 950 sq ft
Seating capacity: 25
Facilities available: This room, generously furnished by a grant from the FBI, consists of 24 student computers and one instructor position. The room also includes an overhead projector and instructor controlled Creston lighting system. The computers are all Dell Optiplex 745 Minitowers running 2.40GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processors, with 2GB Ram. Each is running Windows XP. In addition each contains a virtual image of Linux Fedora 6, and
Windows XP running under VMware.

Computer Forensics Research Lab
Room 312

Size: 950 sq ft
Seating capacity: 19
Facilities available: Xiotech San Server

Explosives Research
Room 309

Size: 1200 sq ft
Seating capacity: 24
Facilities available: This lab is used for chemical preparation of samples for analysis by LC/MS. Samples include mainly explosives, but also other physical evidence samples, such as dyes extracted from fibers.

Room 314

Size: 1150 sq ft
Seating capacity: 23
Facilities available: (coming soon)

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Size: 1150 sq ft
Seating capacity: 23
Facilities available: Contains a stable isotope ratio mass spectrometer for the analysis of Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Sulfur and Hydrogen. The facilities are for the analysis of skeletal remains (both archaeological and forensic)

DNA Research Lab #1
Room 321

Size: 1000 sq ft
Seating capacity: 20
Facilities available: PCR Thermocyclers, Capillary Electrophoresis and Pyrosequencing instruments

DNA Research Lab #2
Room 322

Size: 1000 sq ft
Seating capacity: 20
Facilities available: PCR Thermocyclers, Capillary Electrophoresis and Pyrosequencing instruments

Trace Evidence Lab
Room 323

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Size: 1150 sq ft
Seating capacity: 23
Facilities available: Lab benches, fume hoods and data ports.