Undergraduate Courses
CHGN 311
Introduction to Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
The primary objective of this course is to provide all students a suitable background to understand the role nanotechnology will play in future technologies and the underpinning principals involved.
This course will provide an introduction to exciting fields of nanoscience and nanotechnology. After a general introduction to the field that will involve a discussion of density of states and quantum confinement, we will cover the phenomena associated with working on the nanoscale with materials of all classes. We will then focus on the synthesis and characterization of various nanoscale materials, including metals, metal oxides, graphene, fullerenes and carbon nanotubes. Aspects of their structure, properties and selected applications (toxicity, drug delivery, bio-detection, electronics, optics) will also be covered. Finally, nanoporous materials (including zeolites and MOF’s) and nanocrystalline materials will be treated. This course is appropriate for all majors and is encouraged for those areas where nanotechnology is rapidly becoming an integral part of present/future technologies (materials, mechanical engineering, environmental science/technology, biotechnologies, chemical/biochemical engineering, chemistry, physics, etc.).
CHGN 341
Advanced Inorganic Chemistry I
This course continues from the principles covered in general chemistry with a review of quantum numbers, atomic structure and bonding, molecular structure and bonding, the structures of simple solids, acids and bases, group theory and coordination chemistry. With this background the course then systematically examines the properties of the elements and their compounds.
CHGN 395/495
Introduction to Undergraduate Research/Undergraduate Research
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
(1) To develop critical reading and thinking skills via the scientific method.
(2) To develop skills for the effective preparation of a technical topic for oral presentations.
(3) To develop chemical information acquisition and management skills.
(4) To understand at a fundamental level how science depends on trust and ethics
(5) CHGN495 only – to develop skills as a research scientist
Graduate Courses
CHGN 540
Professional Skills for Chemical Scientists
The goal of this course is to provide students a set of skills that are complimentary to their core education. The contents of this course cover a broad range of topics that will provide the participants a perspective on careers in science and the skill sets necessary to be successful in each. These skills are in line with the latest recommendations of the American Chemical Society and Mines educational goals.
In particular, students go through a number of exercises to work on scientific writing, managing and participating in peer review, proposal preparation and presentation skills.