Download Forensic science is the application of science to law

We in the Chemistry Department at Kansas City Kansas Community College have the
good fortune to have in house an active forensic laboratory testing drug samples for the
Kansas City, Kansas Police Department. As a result we have been able to design an
analytic techniques course to fit in a Forensic Science Associate Degree program which
combines an introduction to evidence handling, laboratory record keeping, chain of
custody issues, and expert witnessing with basic instruction in the theory and techniques
of organic analysis. The students get hands-on experience analyzing samples using FTIR, gas chromatography, and GC/MS. We also include exercises covering the basic
phenomenology of NMR spectroscopy and an introduction to DNA analysis using PCR
and gel electrophoresis