Water
Chemistry
CHEM 4130
Fall 2016
Announcements:
Test two will be in November 10. It will cover Chapters 3 & 4 in your
text.
Our next set of topics is water
treatment. This will
somewhat follow your text.
On November 17
(Next Thursday!!) We will be meeting at the Highland Avenue water plant (corner
of Highland and Central) for a class tour.
I actually have it scheduled to start at 9:30 am. Don’t be late!
On November 29 (Tuesday
after Thanksgiving), our guest speaker will be Margaret Doss from the Columbia
County Water Utility. Please be
respectful. This includes being
on-time (or early), paying attention and asking good questions. She is a potential future employer…make
nice!
Don’t forget that your water reports
are due after Thanksgiving. You might want to start making graphs and thinking
about your presentations. Plan on speaking December 1.
For your class project you will need to
choose a body of water (surface water) to sample/monitor throughout the semester. Criteria:
•Safe
and legal to access
•Convenient
•Unique
(not being used by another student)
•Permanent
(not something that will dry up before December)
•Untreated
(i.e., not tap water)
Another class theme will be the water
crisis in Flint, MI. Your first reading is from Chemical
and Engineering News.
You can get some class extra credit (15
points) for participating in an authorized public outreach activity. I will
email you information for such events as I become aware of them. If you do more than 1 event: 15 for the
first; 10 for the second; 5 pts for the third. You cannot earn points for both Water
Chemistry and Quantitative Analysis.
Homework:
Homework will be
posted with a link that is its due date. Homework should look
professional! Points may be
deducted for an unprofessional submission.
Assignments without a name will not be graded. Late assignments will have a 25%
penalty. Assignments more than 3
calendar days late will NOT be accepted. If you
haven’t learned from the first assignment, these are not the kind of
thing you can do the night before.
Many of the problems you can START NOW!
Some Professional criteria (not
exhaustive):
•Neat/legible
Calculations are generally
better if NOT typed and IN pencil, but that is no excuse for not being able to
tell the difference between a 4 and a 9!
Write large enough that old eyes only need reading glasses, not a
magnifying class.
•Clearly
labeled
Don’t rewrite the
question, but do make sure that the question is numbered consistent with the
assignment.
•Sufficient
white space
Don’t try to squeeze
everything. This makes it less readable.
Use more paper; it’s ok!
•Orderly
Both in how you answer and
the order you submit the questions.
•Multiple
pages are stapled together
Important Documents:
environmental monitoring project resources