In this collaborative project, the concepts of Analytical Method Transfer (AMT) have been integrated in the undergraduate analytical chemistry curriculum at St. John Fisher College (SJFC) and Kennesaw State University (KSU). Students and faculty at SJFC and KSU are developing and validating analytical laboratory methods that are focused on teaching students AMT. The laboratory methods are: 1) dissolution testing and HPLC analysis of glucosamine tablets, 2) dissolution testing and UV analysis of ibuprofen tablets. These analytical methods are being transferred to the other school to confirm the validation - hence perform an AMT as found in the real world. This transfer will return back to the original school to see if the next group can complete the same validation and accomplish the method transfer. Once they have been validated, we will write POGIL-based lecture and lab exercises using our data to be tested at other schools. The POGIL exercises will walk the students at other schools through the steps of AMT, enabling them to determine whether the transfer was successful or not. We aim to improve student engagement and learning in analytical courses at both schools. To achieve this at institutions that lack dissolution testers, we will disseminate POGIL-based lecture and lab activities. This will allow us to compare learning gains between classes that have the instrumentation and those that do not. We will describe the validation and transfer of the analytical methods at the two schools, how learning outcomes are addressed and report on initial student responses to the AMT. We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the NSF (DUE: 1141021 and 1141042) for this project.

Analytical method transfer (AMT): Development of laboratory experiments and related POGIL activities

246th National Meeting (2013)

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