A Project in Method Development for the Instrumental Analysis Chemistry Laboratory

在当代化学课程中，仪器分析实验课程的教学存在仪器功能细节与化学分析整体过程之间的紧张关系。分析化学在工业和其他地方的实践需要对整个过程的理解。本项目通过将分析方法开发项目纳入实验室来解决这一需求。学生选择一种无机（矿物质）和有机（即维生素）成分的加工食品，如婴儿配方奶粉或强化谷物分析。他们研究化学文献中的分析方法，在选择方法时进行批判性评价，并在进行分析时发展独立思考。通过本项目获得的高效液相色谱仪对学生在练习中遇到的许多有机分析的成功至关重要。该机构为该项目提供的资金与美国国家科学基金会的资金相等。

The laboratory course in instrumental analysis in the contemporary chemistry curriculum suffers from a tension between the teaching of the functional details of instruments versus the overall process of chemical analysis. Analytical chemistry as practiced in industry and elsewhere requires an understanding of the overall process. This project addresses that need by the incorporation of an analytical method development project into the laboratory. Students choose one inorganic (mineral) and organic (i.e. vitamin) component of a processed food product such as infant milk formula or fortified cereal to analyze. They research analytical methods in the chemical literature, exercise critical evaluation in choosing methods, and develop independent thinking as the analyses are carried out. The High Performance Liquid Chromatograph acquired through this project is crucial to the success of many of the organic analyses that students encounter in the exercises. The institution contributed to the project in an amount equal to the NSF funds.