BEREA COLLEGE Chemistry Portfolio

Berea College Chemistry Department
Student Laboratory Portfolio

Student: Jane Q. Student Class: 2043

[Seminars][Proficiency Exam][Oral Presentations]
[Important Papers][Laboratory Checklist] [Instrumentation]
[Experiments][Curriculum Guide]

Seminars

A minimum of 12 ACS (or other approved) seminars attended. It is suggested that these be spread out over the last four semesters of work at Berea.

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Proficiency Exam

All chemistry majors must pass a proficiency exam during their senior year. Students must score at or above the 75^th percentile on the American Chemical Society (ACS) Introductory Chemistry Examination. This exam will be offered twice each semester and must be repeated until a satisfactory score is achieved. Students failing to obtain the required score will receive a grade of "I" in CHM 471.

Date %ile Faculty

Administered relative to test norms Approval

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Oral Presentations

A minimum of two formal oral presentations (one must be an oral presentation as opposed to a poster presentation) given on your undergraduate research project. One presentation must occur at a meeting outside of Berea. Examples of suitable venues include, but are not limited to, meetings of the Kentucky Academy of Sciences, the American Chemical Society, or the National Council of Undergraduate Research. A minimum of four additional oral presentations in conjunction with advanced chemistry courses (in the form of a poster/talk/seminar) are also required. Poor presentations will not be awarded credit- see the evaluation sheet for details of proficiency levels.

	Formal Presentations
	Seminar Title	Venue	Date	Faculty Signature
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	Informal/Advanced Laboratory Presentations
	Seminar Title	Venue	Date	Faculty Signature
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Important Papers

You must read and discuss with your advanced laboratory instructor a minimum of 4 key papers from an approved list. Normally you should read/discuss one per advanced laboratory course.

	Paper Title/Author	Date	Faculty Signature	Comments
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Laboratory Experiments/Proficiency Index

Instrumentation Checklist
[Spectroscopy][Chromatography][Electrochemistry][Computational Chemistry][Experiments Checklist]

SPECTROSCOPY (competence in 4 of 6 areas, one area must be NMR)

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

One-Dimensional Experiments
Type	¹H	¹³C	³¹P	²⁷Al/¹¹B/²H	APT/DEPT/INEPT	Spin Saturation
Finished
Multi-Dimensional Experiments
Type	COSY	NOESY	HMQC	HMBC	T₁ Inversion Recovery	Other
Finished
Written Proficiency				Oral Proficiency
Date	Score	Faculty Approval		Date	Score	Faculty Approval

Fourier Transform IR Spectroscopy

FTIR Experiments
	Type	Attenuated Total Reflectance (ATR)	KBr Pellet	Diffuse Reflectance	Thin Film (NaCl plates)
	Finished
Written Proficiency			Oral Proficiency
Date	Score	Faculty Approval	Date	Score	Faculty Approval

Ultraviolet/Visible Spectroscopy

UV/Vis Experiments
		Type	Frequency Resolved	Time Resolved
		Finished
Written Proficiency			Oral Proficiency
Date	Score	Faculty Approval	Date	Score	Faculty Approval

Flame Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy

FAAS Experiments
Type	Air/Acetylene Flame	Nitrous Oxide Flame	Elements Studied (from Fe, Mn, Co, Na, K, P, Pb, As)
Finished
Written Proficiency			Oral Proficiency
Date	Score	Faculty Approval	Date	Score	Faculty Approval

Fluorescence/Phosphorescence Spectroscopy

Experiments
Type	Excitation Resolved	Emission Resolved	Three-dimensional	Time Resolved (kinetics)
Finished
Written Proficiency			Oral Proficiency
Date	Score	Faculty Approval	Date	Score	Faculty Approval

Liquid Scintillation

Written Proficiency			Oral Proficiency
Date	Score	Faculty Approval	Date	Score	Faculty Approval

CHROMATOGRAPHY (competence shown in two of three areas)

1) Gas Chromatography Capillary Column _____ GC/MS _____ Wide Bore Column ____

Written examination: Topic _________ Date ______ Score _______ Faculty _____ Proficiency achieved ______

Oral examination: Topic _________ Date ______ Score _______ Faculty _____ Proficiency achieved ______

2) Low Pressure Liquid Organic Solvent _____ Aqueous Solvent _____

Written examination: Topic _________ Date ______ Score _______ Faculty _____ Proficiency achieved ______

Oral examination: Topic _________ Date ______ Score _______ Faculty _____ Proficiency achieved ______

3) High Performance Liquid Reverse Phase _____ Ion Exchange _____

Written examination: Topic _________ Date ______ Score _______ Faculty _____ Proficiency achieved ______

Oral examination: Topic _________ Date ______ Score _______ Faculty _____ Proficiency achieved ______

ELECTROCHEMISTRY (competence shown in two areas)

1) Polarography Dropping Mercury Electrode _____ Voltage Ramps ________

Written examination: Topic _________ Date ______ Score _______ Faculty _____ Proficiency achieved ______

Oral examination: Topic _________ Date ______ Score _______ Faculty _____ Proficiency achieved ______

2) Voltammetry Cyclic Voltammetry _____ Stripping Voltammetry _____

Written examination: Topic _________ Date ______ Score _______ Faculty _____ Proficiency achieved ______

Oral examination: Topic _________ Date ______ Score _______ Faculty _____ Proficiency achieved ______

3) Coulometry Mercury Pool Electrode _______ Pt Gauze Electrode ________

Written examination: Topic _________ Date ______ Score _______ Faculty _____ Proficiency achieved ______

Oral examination: Topic _________ Date ______ Score _______ Faculty _____ Proficiency achieved ______

COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS (competence with at least six applications)

Microsoft Windows 2000_____ Macintosh OS 9 _____ RedHat LINUX _____

Excel _____ Word _____ Statview _____ Powerpoint _____ Maple/Mathematica _____ Cricket Graph _____

Gaussian 98 _____ Crystal 98 _____ ChemOffice _____

Written examination: Date __________ Score ___________ Faculty _________ Proficiency achieved ______

Oral examination: Date __________ Score ___________ Faculty _________ Proficiency achieved ______

Experiment Checklist (20 experiments required)

Organic Chemistry (must perform at least 3 experiments/ 2 must be multi-step syntheses)