Index

Currently available modules are those with blue links.

The Environment

• Risk Assesment
• Environmentally Benign Syntheses
• Environmental Aspects of Plant Operation
• Regulations and Procedures
• Industrial Safety

Career Skills

Ethics

• Ethical standards in interacting with others and in using other's data.
• Honesty in reporting results
• Respect for coworkers at all levels.

Team Working

Economics

• Globalization
• Relation between profitability and research/development
• Cost of Product Development

Patents

• The Concept of a Patent, Industrial Patent Procedures, the Legal System.
• The Patent as Scientific Literature
• Authorship vs. Inventorship

Academic/Industrial Partnering

• Technology Transfer - Science Transfer
• Optimizing Relations (and Funding) by Understanding the Industrial Culture.

Communication Skills

Business Awareness

The Chemical Industry

• Overview-Who, How big, What products
• Entrepeneurial Companies, and how to prepare to work for one

The Industrial Culture

• The Profit Goal of Industry, and the Role of Science
• Problem Solving Orientation

Global Industry

Interdisciplinary and Collaborative Approaches

• Environmental Science
• Toxicology for Chemists
• Biological Science
• Polymer Science
  1. Polymer Science for Analytical Chemists
  2. Polymer Science for Synthetic Chemists
• Catalysis
• Chemical Engineering for Chemists
• Experimental Design
• Analytical Problem Solving in Industry
• Real vs. Ideal Chemistry

Links to Other Sources of Course Material

A Survey of Courses, Texts, and Curricula in Industrial Chemistry

Prepared and maintained by Prof. Philip J. Chenier, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

Structure and Isomerism of Coordination Compounds

A set of teaching tools developed by Prof. John J. Nash, Dept of Chemistry, Purdue University. The tools illustrate structure and isomerism with three dimensional, moving graphics.

Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion (VSEPR)

This module was created by John J. Nash at Purdue University.

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