Practical Chemistry for Engineers

3 credits · Undergraduate

This class will provide students with hands-on experience with common chemistry laboratory techniques, equipment and instrumentation. The focus will be on lab exercises involving characterization of synthesized products or natural materials to provide students with experience in typical methods of chemical separation (partitioning, precipitation, filtration, etc) and quantification. Topics reviewed will include extraction, basic chromatography, absorption spectroscopy, potentiometric methods and calibration techniques. PREREQUISITES: This course will build on concepts developed in CHEM 1021 and CHEM 1022: Engineering Chemistry I and II and CHEM 2203 Organic Chemistry for Process Engineers. Those courses or their equivalents are thus necessary as pre-requisites.