CHEMICAL ENGINEERING LABORATORY 155
HUMG 2015
SYLLABUS AND COURSE DESCRIPTION



All work submitted for this course must be that of the individual student unless otherwise stated. Students are expected to share data within their group and as specified by the instructor. All work submitted must be that of the individual student. Discussion amongst students is encouraged but physical work to analyze data, interpret results, and prepare documents to communicate findings must be the student’s own individual work. ANY STUDENT, WHO UTILIZES A PREVIOUS OR CURRENT STUDENT’S WORK IN ANY WAY WITHOUT THE EXPRESSED AUTHORIZATION OF THE INSTRUCTOR, WILL FAIL THE COURSE.


COURSE OBJECTIVES
The objectives of the chemical engineering laboratories are as follows:
1. To develop skills in experimentation, with strict adherence to safety guidelines, careful planning, proper record keeping, effective teamwork, and timely performance.
2. To reinforce concepts presented in chemical engineering courses by experimentation with equipment and methods that are designed to generate reliable data. The data are subjected to statistical analysis and evaluation of errors and can be compared with theory and/or literature results to establish their reliability and potential usefulness.
3. To develop skills in communication by using experimental results as the basis for the preparation of written and oral reports.

SAFETY
It is the responsibility of each student to attend the safety training session at the beginning of the course. No student will be permitted in the laboratory unless he/she has completed the safety-training program. Eye protection must be worn in the laboratory at all times. No food or beverages are allowed in the laboratory. Sandals, soft shoes, short pants, short skirts, loose clothing, and long, unbound hair are prohibited. If you are in doubt about safety issues, ask for help from the instructors, the teaching assistants.

PREPARATION FOR EXPERIMENTS
Students MUST read the laboratory handout for each laboratory by Monday the week that experiment is to be performed. Lectures will reinforce the written material and provide time for group discussions, experimental planning, and preparation of data spread sheets. Students are encouraged to bring their laptops to class and the laboratories.

INDIVIDUAL REPORTS
All experiments will be performed by groups rather than by individuals. Written reports are to be prepared independently by each student for each experiment. Individual written reports are required for the first three experiments. The last experiment, Heat Conduction in Solid Rods, will be the subject of an oral presentation, which will be a group effort.
The plotting of data and data reduction should be done during the course of experimentation (i.e. IN THE LAB WHILE COLLECTING DATA) to allow the group to assess the progress of the experiment. Copies of the data from each experiment should be distributed to each group member at the conclusion of each experiment, preferably in the form a spreadsheet. In recording the data, students should include sufficient information to allow another chemical engineering student to comprehend the experimental details and reproduce the data.
Following the first three experiments, each student is responsible for performing his/her own computations (such as comparisons between theory and experiment), for having complete knowledge of the experimental methods and equipment, and for writing his/her own report. The data analysis and oral presentations for the second experiment will be a group effort, and each group must decide on an equitable division of the work.



WRITTEN REPORTS
All written reports must be prepared with a word processor (EXCEPT THE APPENDIX WHICH CAN BE PAPER AND PENCIL OR PEN). A variety of computer tools are available for computation, statistical analysis, and the preparation of graphs, charts, equations, and tables. Students are expected to develop the necessary skills to use these tools routinely.
The purpose of the written report is to provide a summary of techniques used in the experiment and to present and evaluate the results and compare them with results of established theories and/or literature values.

The text of the report should be prepared with
a font size of 12,
margins of 1inch,
text of 1.5 spacing,
single sided pages that are numbered.

The report format should be as follows:

(i) Title page. This page includes a short but descriptive title, the name of the person submitting the report, the date of the experiment, the date the report is submitted, the name of the instructor, the group number, and the names of laboratory group members who participated in the experimentation. This page is not numbered. An example is shown in Figure 1.
(ii) Abstract. The abstract should appear on a separate page and be independent of the remainder of the report. The purpose of the abstract is to summarize the information in the report in half a page or less that must serve as a stand-alone document. The abstract requires clear, concise, and quantitative statements of what was done, what was found, and what it means. Writing an abstract requires a great deal of thought and is best done after completion of the other sections of the report.