Please note! Course description is confirmed for two academic years, which means that in general, e.g. Learning outcomes, assessment methods and key content stays unchanged. However, via course syllabus, it is possible to specify or change the course execution in each realization of the course, such as how the contact sessions are organized, assessment methods weighted or materials used.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

After the course the student will be able to

- Describe the theoretical basis of currently important instrumental analysis methods excluding electroanalytical methods.

- Describe the functional components of the instrument/instruments used in the method

- Select suitable methods on the basis of the actual needs (i.e. allowed costs, precision, detection limit, calibration range).

- Find and read basic scientific literature on a given topic related to the novel developments of selected method/method group.

Credits: 5

Schedule: 25.10.2022 - 05.12.2022

Teacher in charge (valid for whole curriculum period):

Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): Sakari Kulmala

Contact information for the course (applies in this implementation):

CEFR level (valid for whole curriculum period):

Language of instruction and studies (applies in this implementation):

Teaching language: English. Languages of study attainment: English

CONTENT, ASSESSMENT AND WORKLOAD

Content
  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    The course covers the most important instrumental methods used in quantitative analysis.

Assessment Methods and Criteria
  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    Lectures, homework, 2 PBL/Essay tasks, and final examination.

Workload
  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    Lectures 18 h
    Homework 84 h

    PBL/Essays 30 h
    Exam 3 h

DETAILS

Substitutes for Courses
Prerequisites

FURTHER INFORMATION

Further Information
  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    It is possible that we must still apply only remote teaching due to the continuously emerging new dangerous COVID 19 virus variants. Alternatively, flipped teaching is applied: The two weekly remote lectures are taken as homework and the third weekly face-to-face lecture is used for questions/discussion on the week's topics. In this way we can minimize the amount of contact teaching promoting transmissions of old and new COVID 19 virus variants and, importantly,  it is presently regarded that flipped teaching increases considerably the effectiveness and interactivity of learning. If only remote teaching can be applied, students can ask public questions which will be anonymously visible in the MyCourses or they can ask private questions which are not shown to other course participants and are only answered directly to the asker. 

    Teaching Language : English

    Teaching Period : 2022-2023 Autumn II
    2023-2024 Autumn II

    Enrollment :

    Registration will take place on Sisu (sisu.aalto.fi).

    A course implementation may be cancelled if the number of students enrolled to the course implementation does not meet the required minimum of five students. In the case of cancelled course implementations, the students enrolled to them must be provided with an alternative way of completing the course or be advised to take some other applicable course.