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PEC143: Chemical Laboratory Techniques

This unit introduces techniques which emphasise analytical and synthetic chemical procedures used in industrial, environmental and chemical analytical laboratories. Students will be given formal training in OHS issues such as storage, transport and handling of chemicals and other hazards in scientific laboratories. Computational expression of scientific problems using computing tools to solve them is covered. MATLAB, Excel and Visual Basic are used to illustrate programming constructs, data types, operators, control flow, functional decomposition, file handling, report generation, modularity and reuse.

Points

3

Enrolment Options

Murdoch: S2-internal

Contact Time

Laboratories/tutorials/lectures: 6 hours per week.

Prerequisites

A thorough knowledge of Year 12 Chemistry is assumed.
Students who did not achieve a final scaled score of more than 60% in TEE Chemistry within the three years immediately preceding enrolment are required to pass PEC140 Introduction to Chemistry before enrolling in this unit.

School

School of Chemical and Mathematical Sciences

Unit Coordinator

Dr Damian Laird

  • Position:
Lecturer
  • E-mail:
D.Laird@murdoch.edu.au
  • Location:
Murdoch Campus
Physical Sciences
Room 2.016
  • Phone:
    Prefix: +618
9360 1274
Unit Contacts
Contact Phone
Prefix: +618
Location
Teaching Period(s)
Dr Damian Laird
Lecturer
(D.Laird@murdoch.edu.au)
9360 1274 Murdoch Campus
Physical Sciences
Room 2.016
MURDOCH S2: Internal
(02/08/2010 - 26/11/2010)
 
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Key to Offshore Campus Location abbreviations:

APMISIN

Asia Pacific Management Institute (Singapore)

CEJTOKYO

Chiropractic Education Japan (Tokyo)

JKURASHIKI

NET Corporation (Kurashiki, Japan)

KDUPG

KDU College (Penang, Malaysia)

KDUPJ

KDU College (Petaling Jaya, Malaysia)

SGP-REPOLY

Republic Polytechnic (Singapore)

SMANUFED

Singapore Manufacturing Federation

ZHENGZHOU

Zhengzhou University (China)