Tentative
Course Calendar for
CBEN High School Summer Academy 2007
Dell
Butcher Hall 200 (Entrance 13,
Start
9.00 am - Finish 3.00 pm (Workrooms open at 8.00 am and until 5.00 pm)
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Monday July 16 |
Tuesday July 17 |
Wednesday July 18 |
Thursday July 19 |
Friday July 20 |
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9.00a.m in DBH 214 Nanotalk Safety Rules/Lab Courtesy/Cool Burning Discuss project. |
9.00 am Bus leaves outside Dell Butcher
Hall. Taking water samples all day from bayous and sea. Sampling Techniques Insect repellant,
sunscreen, and water provided
- bring a packed
lunch |
9.00 am Start analyzing the samples. Dissolved oxygen by titrations and oxygen
probe. Biological Oxygen Demand. Leave samples in the sun for 5 days
with/without Titanium dioxide/Fenton's reagent. |
9.00 am pH experiments today.
Starting with taking the pH of everyday things we use and drink. Then the pH analyses of water samples. The importance of temperature |
9.00 am Chloride analysis by titration and
probes. Ferrofluids/LEDs Solar Cells |
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1.0
pm Introduce Jonathan and Amanda, PhD students Check into labs and drawer equipment. Part I of Nanorust Lab |
Return to laboratory and refrigerate water
samples. |
1.00 pm Short tour of the
HiPco Lab by Richard Booker, PhD candidate in Prof Smalley (Tour/Pasquali) |
1.00 p.m Dr Junghae Suh will talk about her
research in the Bioengineering Department on nanoviruses. 2.00 p.m Following a pH titration - the
importance of a buffer. Web research |
1.0 p.m GC/MS with Dr. Sandy Yates,
Research Scientist, GC/MS Mgr. 2.00 p.m NMR with Dr Alemany, Sr. Research
Scientist/NMR Mgr; Lecturer |
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Monday July 23 |
Tuesday July 24 |
Wednesday July 25 |
Thursday July 26 |
Friday July 27 |
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Finish dissolved oxygen analyses of samples
with Titanium dioxide/Fenton's reagent, |
Looking at the reactions of metals. |
Calcium (water hardness), ammonia and
nitrate analyses. |
Field trip to the |
Forensic Science Lab. Former student |
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1 pm Dr Angelo Benedetto, Research
Scientist, Smalley Inst Nanoscale Sci & Tec, will talk to us about the use of AFM and SEM
(Atomic Force Microscopy and Scanning Electron Microscopy in Nanotechnology) |
1.00 pm David Abmayr, PhD
candidate in Prof Engel's group, will show us the use of Gas Liquid
Chromatography in the analysis of pesticides and PCBs in water samples. |
1.00 pm Heather Shipley,
Ph.D candidate in Civil and Environmental Engineering, will show us Heavy
metal analysis using an ICP (Inductively Coupled Plasma linked to a Mass
Spectrometer) Tieing all the analyses together |
Field trip to IMAX and tour
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Chemistry Magic Show and thinking about the
Science behind them. Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream Social |
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Last modified July 11th 2007. Questions or comments, please contact mmchale@rice.edu