Teaching analytical chemistry and separation science is one of the most rewarding parts of my work. Over the years, I’ve developed a variety of classroom activities, datasets, tutorials, and other materials to help students engage with topics ranging from foundational analytical chemistry to multidimensional separations and GC×GC. I’m sharing these resources here in the hope that they may be useful to other instructors, students, and researchers. Please feel free to adapt them for your own teaching, and I always enjoy hearing how others approach teaching these concepts in their classrooms and laboratories.
Chemometrics Activity
This activity was designed for an upper division analytical chemistry elective focusing on chemometrics and data processing for chromatographic data. It includes an introductory activity on peak picking with HPLC data (caffeine standards) and an introductory activity on unsupervised visualization using PCA and HCA with GC×GC data (essential oils – sandalwood).
GC×GC Jellybean Introductory Activity
This activity was designed for instructors introducing GC×GC-MS in courses for the first time at the undergraduate level. It was developed in consult with LECO Corporation who provided the data for the activity. This introduces the concepts of GC×GC-MS peak tables, flavor analysis, and contour plots.