URL study guide
https://tue.osiris-student.nl/onderwijscatalogus/extern/cursus?cursuscode=6BBR02&collegejaar=2025&taal=enOmschrijving
- The introduction to Inorganic Chemistry part covers the basic conventions and principles in acid-base and redox chemistry, including strong and weak acids and bases, pH calculations, buffers, redox equations and basic electrochemical phenomena.
- The introduction to Statistics part covers the main principles in probability (probability rules, random variable, expectation, variance), standard distributions (discrete unform distribution, binomial distribution, continuous uniform distribution, normal distribution), exploratory data analysis (sample mean, sample standard deviation, sample variance, histrogram, box plot, probability plot), and error propagation.
- The part "Introduction to Practical skills" covers safety, glassware and equipment, elementary basic techniques, data processing and interpretation, and writing a lab report. Moreover, the course is the first acquaintance with practical skillw regarding organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry and process technology, to which the gained theoretical background in these fields is applied.
Extra information about the assessment
The grades for the practical component (lab report 1/2/3) and the Safety test (digital test 2) are valid for 6 academic years. The results of the orther digital tests (tests 1 and 3) are only valid in the academic year in which they were taken.
The final course grade will be the weighted average, which should be at least a 5.5 to pass the course.
The digital tests for this course will take place every afternoon (3 sessions per afternoon, with a maximal capacity of 36 students per session, during week 1 till week 7 of quartile 1, and every morning and afternoon (3 sessions per morning and 3 sessions per afternoon, with a maximal capacity of 36 students per session in week 8 of quartile 1. Each student has the right to have at least 1 resit for each digital test within the course, as long as the student distributed the attempts for the digital tests evenly over the quartile.
Extra General info:
A student may only be absent for at most 5% of the scheduled hours of the practical component of this course, with an, according to the opinion of the board examiners, legitimate reason. Only if the absence of student hinders the continuation of the project, a student needs to catch up for the missed hours A student informs the lecturer about his or her absence right away If a student is absent for more than 5% of the scheduled time, in any case, possibilities to catch up for the missed hours need to be discussed with the lecturer of the course. The lecturer can oblige a student to re-sit part or the whole course later.
Doelstellingen
- The student is able to identify conjugate acids and bases, and rules for strong and weak acids/bases, in both Brønsted and Lewis acid-base systems.
- The student is able to use Pauling’s rules to predict the pKa’s of oxoacids.
- The student is able to calculate pH of buffers and predict buffer capacity.
- The student is able to understand the periodic trends of acidic, basic, and amphoteric compounds.
- The student is able to balance complex oxidation-reduction reactions.
- The student is able to use the Nernst equation to determine half-cell and cell potentials.
- The student is able to apply the concepts of redox chemistry to electrochemical cells.
- The student is able to distinguish between galvanic and electrolytic cells.
- The student is able to apply Faraday’s law to electrolysis reactions.
- The student learns how to work safely and environment responsible in the laboratory.
- The student is able to do elementary computations with the rules of probability.
- The student is able to work with standard distributions such as the uniform, binomial and normal distribution.
- The student is able to perform and interpreting an exploratory data analysis of a dataset.
- The student is able to synthesize an organic molecule in one step.
- The student is able to isolate the product, and determine the yield.
- The student is able to analyse the obtained product and determine the composition or purity.
- The student is able to prepares solutions of a requested pH.
- The student is able to accurately determine the pH of a solution using titration.
- The student is able to correctly prepare buffer solutions.
- The student is able to apply Faraday’s law to electrolysis reactions.
- The student is able to balance complex oxidation-reduction reactions.
- The student is able to calculate the half-cell and cell potentials using the Nernst equation and compare these potentials to Voltage differences measured using an electrochemical set-up.
- The student is able to create a calibration line using UV Vis.
- The student is able to determine the concentration of a component in a solution using UV Vis.
- The student is able to construct a mass balance of the batch and plug-flow reactor and determine the rate constants of a conversion in aqueous medium using a lab-scale reactor.
- The student is able to work safely and environmentally responsibly in the laboratory, taking guidance from a supervisor skilled in these fields.
- The student is able to use glassware, chemical equipment and physical equipment commonly used in the field.
- The student is able to perform elementary basic techniques.
- The student is able to execute a recipe carefully.
- The student is able to process and interpret data obtained via elementary techniques and commonly used equipment.
- The student is able to use a laboratory notebook that contains the previously prepared calculation method and procedural notes and fill out a lab report according to a set template.
- The student is able to make an inventory of dangers related to activities to be performed in the laboratory, evaluate these dangers and reduce the related risks by mitigating actions. The student does this according to a set template.
- The student is able to look up scientific information needed to obtain the intended outcome. Specifically, the student is able to look up general background information as offered in the theoretical part of the year 1 quartile 1 courses. The student does this according to “preparative questions” provided by a supervisor skilled in the field.
- The student is able to look up scientific information needed to obtain the intended outcome. Specifically, the student is able to look up a value corresponding to the intended outcome (for example: yield, titer, potential,….). The student does this by choosing a source from a limiting set of sources provided by a supervisor skilled in the field.
- In the laboratory notebook, the student is able to note down a method to process the obtained data and interpret it.
- In the laboratory notebook, the student is able to note down the procedural notes needed to complete the experiment in a timely fashion.
- The student is able to write a lab report (measurement report) detailing the result of an experiment performed in the laboratory. The student does this according to a template outlining the structure of the report.
- The student is able to translate a recipe into a procedure and include this in the section of the report: “Materials, Equipment and Procedures”.
- The student is able to represent results (a calculation, data, and information) in a concise and comprehensible way. The student does this using the calculation prepared previously.
- The student is able to relate the goal of the experiment to the discussion, conclusion and recommendation. The student does this according to guiding steps provided by a supervisor skilled in the field.
- The student is able to compose a detailed study planning.
- The student is able to compose a detailed study planning, keep track of the time spent, has insight in the causes of deviations in the time spent and planning, adjust the study planning when necessary, and is able to reflect upon its performance.
- The student is able to reflect on the safety in the laboratory.