Graduate Electrochemistry Course Projects

Tuesday, 15 October 2019: 15:00
Room 308 (The Hilton Atlanta)
D. E. Cliffel (Vanderbilt University)
Electrochemistry as a discipline is taught comprehensively as a graduate course throughout the United States. With the increasing movement towards active learning environments in classrooms, this talk will highlighted several past and current models of including laboratory and computational components to augment the classical lecture format in the graduate electrochemistry course and a related advanced analytical sensors course. Significant challenges occur in “flipping the classroom” or other in vogue “SCALEUP” course models when a working knowledge of the field is very difficult to obtain from reading even the most accepted texts. Hybrid models incorporating out of class projects have been adapted to increase the relevance of the field to particular students while building up a working knowledge and experimental experience. The nature of these projects has shifted over the years to specific assignments to independently designed projects to team projects and back to individual ideas plus team help.