ASDL's First-Gen Editors:
This collection of labs, courseware, and e-books were developed during several summer meetings of ASDL’s First-Gen editors.
Use these comprehensive resources to guide or augment your undergraduate analytical chemistry course topics.
Full Courses for Instructors and Students
E-courseware
- Teaching Instrumental Analysis without a Textbook This pdf contains learning objectives and corresponding web links for topics seen in most Instrumental Analysis courses. Instrumental Analysis is the second course of a 2 semester sequence for analytical chemistry from the US Military Academy
- Analytical Chemistry: The Basic Concepts author: Rick Kelly- To understand electrochemical phenomenon we need to have an understand of the basic concepts and the language that conveys them. This module is a starting point.
- Introduction to Lasers author: Carol Korzeniewski – This module is aimed at presenting the most basic principles of lasers and discussing aspects of common types with an introduction to laser radiation and laser optics.
- Quantitative NMR author: Cindy Larive – This module provides a brief overview of basic NMR theory, a Q-NRM tutorial, a virtual experiment using NRM simulator, exercises with NMR data, and several applications. A guide for instructors is included.
- Introduction to Signals and Noise author: Steve Petrovic – This module frames the roles of signal and noise in chemical measurement, and describes how to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of analytical signals.
- Introduction to Data Analysis Author: David Harvey- The modules on this site will guide you in exploring several important concepts in data analysis; these are: uncertainty, preliminary analysis , data set comparisons, linear regression, and outliers.
- Analytical Electrochemistry – Potentiometry Author: Erin Gross – This is an introduction to the measurement technique of potetiometry intended as a primary tool for Quantitative Analysis, Analytical Chem, or Instrumental Analysis
- Green Chemistry author: Stanley Manahan – Green Chemistry seeks to present a body of chemical knowlege from the most fundamental level within a framework of the relationship of chemical science to human beings, their surroundings, and their environment.
- ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY 2.0 author: David Harvey – ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY 2.0 digital textbook provides links to several resources for undergraduate education in Analytical Chemistry
- Introduction to X-ray Diffraction (XRD) author: Heather Bullen – This module is aimed at presenting the basic theory and applications of X-ray Diffraction to a novice user. An interactive tutorial is also provided to help in obtaining an understanding of diffraction.
Learning Modules
Learning Modules
- Analytical Electrochemistry – Potentiometry Author: Erin Gross – This is an introduction to the measurement technique of potetiometry intended as a primary tool for Quantitative Analysis, Analytical Chem, or Instrumental Analysis
- Analytical Electrochemistry: A Laboratory Manual author: Ted Kuwana – This lab manual contains 7 experiments written for faculty, students, and practitioners interested in learning electrochemical techniques and applications.
- Analytical Electrochemistry: An Introduction authors: Kelly and Kuwana – After studying this module you should be able to discuss physical basis underlying voltammetric methods and describe an electrochemical cell, and visualize how potentiometry works,
- Analytical Electrochemistry: The Basic Concepts author: Rick Kelly – This module includes enough information to understand and use electrochemical techniques effectively without getting bogged down in theory.
- Introduction to Atomic Emission Spectroscopy Authors: Scheeline and Spudich – AES is a broad area that includes several analytical chemistry techniques focused on elememtal analysis, the identification, quantification, and speciation of the elemental makeup of a specimen.
- Introduction to Lasers author: Carol Korzeniewski – This module is aimed at presenting the most basic principles of lasers and discussing aspects of common types with an introduction to laser radiation and laser optics.
- Quantitative NMR author: Cindy Larive – This module provides a brief overview of basic NMR theory, a Q-NRM tutorial, a virtual experiment using NRM simulator, exercises with NMR data, and several applications. A guide for instructors is included.
Freeware
E-books
- ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY 2.0 author: David Harvey – ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY 2.0 digital textbook provides links to several resources for undergraduate education in Analytical Chemistry
- Green Chemistry author: Stanley Manahan – Green Chemistry seeks to present a body of chemical knowlege from the most fundamental level within a framework of the relationship of chemical science to human beings, their surroundings, and their environment.
Teaching Practices
Teaching Practices
- Active Learning in Advanced Analytical Chemistry, a Course for First Year Graduate Students author: Alexander Scheeline – An active learning approach to the first-semester analytical course for entering graduate students is described. This involves teaching students to read and understand the literature by having them lecture on topics that they
- Team Teaching a Mass Spectrometry Course: an Industry-University Collaboration authors: Jeffrey R. Gilbert and Anne M. Wilson-An advanced mass spectrometry course for upper-level chemistry students is described. This course was a team-teaching collaboration between a full-time faculty member and a full- time industrial chemist.