The program aims to provide students with the knowledge and skills that enable them to prepare the school laboratory environment, tools, and used devices for students to conduct scientific experiments, tests, and measurements according to the relevant curriculum. This program also aims to enable students to operate and maintain laboratory equipment and tools, help students to use them in the correct way. Besides, the program focuses on providing students with specialized skills in preparing laboratories and adjusting and maintaining equipment to meet the needs of the labor market in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The most important detailed objectives of the program are as follows:
1. Providing students with knowledge, concepts and methods of handling laboratory devices and tools.
2. Providing students with scientific and practical skills to deal with physical and chemical laboratory devices and tools.
3. Providing students with the practical skills related to the quality of laboratory tools to improve the accuracy of the final results issued by the devices and experiments through practical training in order to support the Saudi market's need for professional cadres in the field of laboratory technicians.
4. Providing students with the information needed for each experiment.
5. Providing students with the knowledge of preparing samples and tools necessary for the experiment, taking into account safety measures.
6. Providing students with the skill of disposing chemical waste in a scientific and safe manner.
7. Providing students with the skill of handling radioactive sources.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge
1.Recognizing the basic concepts of physics and chemistry.
2. Recognizing the basic areas of physics and chemistry laboratories and learning the scientific theories of laboratory experiments.
3. Planning and organizing work in laboratories.
4. Learning about the steps, stages and components of experiment work.
5. Learning how to prepare laboratories and arrange their work system.
6. Recognizing the ways of managing laboratories and maintaining safety.
7. Learning how to coordinate with a faculty member, teacher, or laboratory specialist to raise the efficiency and readiness of the laboratory.
8. Learning how to write reports about the laboratory, the extent of the experiments' readiness, and the reasons why the experiment is not ready for work.
9. Learning how to deal with students in laboratories.
Skills
1. Preparing different devices, tools and experiments for work.
2. Accuracy in results through periodic calibration of devices.
3. The ability to apply safety and security standards.
4. The ability to use computers in the field of laboratories
Jobs
1. Laboratory organizer.
2. Biology Laboratory Technician.
3. Science lab technician.
4. Laboratory trainer.
