Class Meetings
The schedule below outlines each day's main topic. Class meetings are subdivided into four categories: developing a common language and a common set of methods for characterizing quantitative analytical methods; brief individual meetings; mid-semester project introductions; and discussions of papers from the analytical literature.
- January 28: no class
- February 4: the language of uncertainty(AC2.1: Chapter 4; Eurochem: 6.5, 6.6, 6.7)
- February 11: methods of standardization and spike recoveries (AC2.1: Chapter 5)
- February 18: detection limits (Eurochem: 6.2)
- February 25: selectivity (Eurochem: 6.1)
- March 4: ruggedness testing (Eurochem: 6.8)
- March 11: project introduction
- March 18: project introduction
- March 25:
Spring Break
- April 1: individual meetings
- April 8: literature review
- April 15: literature review
- April 22: literature review
- April 29: individual meetings
- May 6: individual meetings
Lab Meetings
The schedule below outlines each day's activity. Other than the first two days, when we will complete some prelimiary experiments that will help us develop some common language and common methods for characterizing quantitative analytical methods, lab days are dedicated to working on your individual projects:
- January 29: orientation to method development project
- February 5: characterizing uncertainty in an analytical method
- February 12: obtaining a representative sample
- February 19: method development project
- February 26: method development project
- March 5: method development project
- March 12: method development project
- March 19: method development project
- March 26:
Spring Break
- April 2: method development project
- April 9: method development project
- April 16: method development project
- April 23: method development project
- April 30: method development project
- May 7: clean up and final oral reports