Chemistry in Practice: Industry, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship

Undergraduate

Students will be introduced to applied and industrial chemistry by exploring how core scientific principles are used to address practical and industry-relevant problems. Students will be able to explain how chemical knowledge is applied through experimental design, instrumentation, interdisciplinary collaboration across sectors such as manufacturing, environmental monitoring, pharmaceuticals, and materials science. Students will consider how innovation and entrepreneurial thinking shape the development of scientific ideas and their broader societal applications. Guest speakers from industry, government, and UWindsor will highlight career pathways, innovation, and commercialization. As a culminating project, student teams will develop a chemistry-based idea and present an investor pitch session that integrates scientific rationale, feasibility, and potential impact. Experiential learning will prepare students to apply chemistry in academic, industrial, and entrepreneurial settings. (Prerequisite: Chemistry major program) (3 lecture hours per week.) (This is an experiential learning course.)