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  • General

    Welcome to General chemistry lab course/Fall 2023! This MyCourses workspace is important as most of the activities happen through this. It is also an essential channel of information.

    Teachers:

    • Ville Miikkulainen, PhD, University lecturer. ville.miikkulainen@aalto.fi, +358 50 467 1835
    • Nhi Tran, Teaching assistant (Lab)
    • Carla Oatu, Teaching assistant (Lab)
    • Natalia Leszczynska, Teaching assistant (Lab)
    • Thi Le, Teaching assistant (Lab)
    • Hoa Chu, Teaching assistant (Lab)
    • Linh Tong, Teaching assistant (Lab)
    • Cleopatra Siders Silva, Teaching assistant (Lab)
    • Huy Nguyen, Teaching assistant (Lab)
    • Bogdan Barnas, Teaching assistant (Lab)
    • Weronika Wojnicka, Teaching assistant (Lab)
    • Mahtab Hosseini-Dolama, Teaching assistant (Café Data)
    • Yasir Kacar, Teaching assistant (Café Data)


    The learning process in this course will be facilitated by different activities:

    1. Lessons on MyCourses: Three topical Lessons to get familiar with the topic and theoretical frame. Done individually, this is a graded item, up to 3 course points.
    2. Two lectures : Two lectures about the methods and theory in connection with lab work. Highly recommended to get a good start for your lab work. Tue Oct. 24 in zoom; Thu Oct. 26 in Platinium - C104 (Circular Raw Materials Hub, Vuorimiehentie 2).
    3. *Lab case studies (5) in CHEM teaching lab and MyCourses assignments: Graded MyCourses assignments related to the lab cases, both before and after the lab. These assignments are worth up to 15 course points in total.
    4. *Lab journal is for documenting your lab work, graded up to 15 course points.
    5. Excel Gym (session on Nov. 2) is for working out data treatment with spreadsheets, graded up to 2 course points.
    6. Café Data is for discussions and to help in processing your lab data into results.
    7. *Lab report: The Case 5 lab is summarized into a lab report, done with your lab workpair. This is a graded item, up to 13 course points. Pass threshold for report 5 course points.
    8. Calculation exercise on MyCourses: One exercise on chemical problems, mainly calculations. The solutions are submitted individually online, this is a graded item, up to 2 course points.
    Mandatory (*): Pre- and post-lab assignments, doing the lab cases in the lab, lab journal, and lab report.

    Course assessment (1-5) is based on maximum of 50 course points.

    ≥45.00 points   5
    40.00-44.99      4
    35.00-39.99      3
    30.00-34.99      2
    20.00-29.99      1
    <20.00              F

    Threshold to pass the course is 20 course points. Lab report pass threshold 5 course points.

    Course e-book: Chemistry: A Molecular Approach by Nivaldo J. Tro. If you don’t have the passcode to access the e-book from CHEM-C1220, you can use the e-book available through Aalto University library (sign-in required): https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/aalto-ebooks/reader.action?docID=5185960&ppg=1

    Please use the vitalsource platform if you have the code from this year's CHEM-C1220 as there are only five licenses through ProQuest!