Student Learning Outcomes

In the Analytical Chemistry courses, CHEM 274 and CHEM 333 and the associated laboratories, the students are introduced to the foundations of making accurate and precise measurements and to important technological aspects of making such measurements.

A student completing CHEM 274/274L must understand

  1. the importance of calibration, sampling strategy, sample matrix, sample handling and of record keeping for the generation of quantitatively meaningful data,
  2. critical quantifying parameters for various analytical methods,
  3. understand basic statistical methods for data refinement, acceptance and presentation.

A student completing CHEM 333/333L must understand

  1. the basic design principles of the major analytical instruments in use today and the way in which these principles affect detection limits,
  2. the strategies for selection of an instrument for a specific analytical task,
  3. how to produce valid data at the detection limit and how to treatinstrument data output for the production of valid results.

September 11, 2006