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EBIO/ECHM 442 Laboratory I

EBIO/ECHM 442 Laboratory I. Fall, 2014 Jeff Heys and Dana Skorupa. About me…. Fifth time teaching this course. Office: COBL 310 Office hours: T 10-11:30am, Th 12:00-1:00pm Other information on syllabus. Your previous lab courses…. Follow this recipe Report your data.

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EBIO/ECHM 442 Laboratory I

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  1. EBIO/ECHM 442Laboratory I Fall, 2014 Jeff Heys and Dana Skorupa

  2. About me… • Fifth time teaching this course. • Office: COBL 310 • Office hours: T 10-11:30am, Th 12:00-1:00pm • Other information on syllabus

  3. Your previous lab courses… • Follow this recipe • Report your data

  4. Objectives of this course… • Formulate an experimental objective. • Learn to design and plan an experiment for that objective. • Correctly analyze data and compare with a theory. • Effectively communicate objectives 1-3 in a report.

  5. Old Design of this Course • 1 semester --- “Throw them to the wolves design” • 5 experiments including experimental design plan and final report • New design: 2 semesters with 2 experiment in the fall and 3 in the spring. • Include a teaching component in fall.

  6. Schedule and Plan • First 5 weeks: review of statistics and report writing with roughly 1 homework per week. No labs for the first 5 weeks. • Week 6: first experimental plan • Weeks 7-9: Experiment #1 • Weeks 10-12: Experiment #2 • Mostly finished by Thanksgiving.

  7. Experiment Schedule • At least 1 week before conducting an experiment, turn in an Experiment Plan (Objective, Theory, and Methods section of final report plus Anticipated Results). • Before conducting an experiment, check with me to make sure your plan is acceptable. • Final report is due 2 weeks after conducting the experiment (unless something goes horribly wrong, then turn in a new experimental plan).

  8. Schedule • You are allowed to conduct the experiments outside the scheduled time. The lab is off limits during ECHM/EBIO 100 lab times, but otherwise, just get approval (and key) from me. • Please work with the other two members of your group on scheduling (see course webpage). • The lab equipmentmay be scarce during the scheduled times.

  9. Groups • Each group turns in a single Experiment Plan and a single Final Report. • Before an experiment, the group members should designate a leader, a scribe or recorder, and an operator (these roles should rotate). • Pick your own 4 person group for the first homework.

  10. Experiments • There are 5 or 6 possible experiments, but you are required to do exactly TWO! • Fuel cell (maybe) • Packed bed • Moving reaction front • Distillation column (ECHM only) • Gas Diffusion (new) • Liquid Diffusion (new) • As a group, you may request one experiment as your top choice…please email me your top choice by Sept. 13 – I will assign the other lab.

  11. Resources • Download and print the Info Packet by Larsen. • Download and print the Style Guide by me. • Dust off your old statistics book. • “The Elements of Style” by Strunk and White for help with grammar.

  12. "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.“ –Benjamin Disraeli "A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.“ - Joseph Stalin statistics

  13. Video • http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/peter_donnelly_shows_how_stats_fool_juries.html • http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html • http://www.ted.com/talks/david_mccandless_the_beauty_of_data_visualization.html

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