Course Materials 2011

Syllabus

Download the syllabus [PDF].

Presentations

For the Spring 2011 course, each 1.5-hour class was videotaped, which consisted of webcasting the slide presentations with audio of most of the presentations and discussions.  Links to the webcasts, audiocasts and slides for each class are provided below.

• Class 1 Materials: Slides (Part 1) (Part 2), Webcasts, Audiocasts 
• Class 2 Materials: Slides, Webcasts, Audiocasts 
• Class 3 Materials: Slides, Webcasts, Audiocasts
• Class 4 Materials: Slides, Webcasts, Audiocasts
• Class 5 Materials: Slides (Part 1) (Part 2), Webcasts, Audiocasts
• Class 6 Materials: Slides, Webcasts, Audiocasts
• Class 7 Materials: Slides (Part 1) (Part 2), Webcasts, Audiocasts
• Class 8 Materials: Slides, Audiocasts
• Class 9 Materials: Slides, Webcasts, Audiocasts
• Class 10 Materials: Slides (Part 1) (Part 2), Webcasts, Audiocasts
• Class 11 Materials: Slides, Webcasts, Audiocasts
• Class 12 Materials: Slides, Webcasts, Audiocasts
• Class 13 Materials: Slides, Webcasts, Audiocasts
• Class 14 Materials: Slides, Audiocasts
• Class 15 Materials: Slides, Audiocasts
• Class 16 Materials: Slides, Webcasts
• Class 17 Materials: Slides, Webcasts, Audiocasts
• Class 18 Materials: Slides, Webcasts, Audiocasts
• Class 19 Materials: Slides, Webcasts, Audiocasts
• Class 20 Materials: Slides, Webcasts, Audiocasts
• Class 21 Materials: Slides, Webcasts, Audiocasts
• Class 22 Materials: Slides, Webcasts, Audiocasts
• Class 23 Materials: Slides, Webcasts, Audiocasts
• Class 24 Materials: Slides, Webcasts, Audiocasts
• Class 25 Materials: Slides, Webcasts, Audiocasts
• Class 26 Materials: Slides

Readings

Download the list of readings [PDF].

Assignments

For seven of the classes, students were given short assignments to prepare before class.  These seven assignments are presented below and explained and discussed in the syllabus as well.

• Class 2 Assignment
• Class 6 Assignment
• Class 7 Assignment
• Class 10 Assignment
• Class 18 Assignment
• Class 20 Assignment
• Class 23 Assignment

Projects

The students formed interdisciplinary groups to conduct course projects that constituted the majority of the course grade. Presented below are: (1) the Project Overview introducing the class project, (2) Outlines of Proposed Projects developed by the instructors and (3) Posters from the actual projects conducted by the students in the class.  (All files are in PDF format.) The projects were introduced and materials provided in Class 3.

1. Project Overview
2. Proposed Projects
   1. BPA in Receipts
   2. Data Sharing, transparency systems, and open science
   3. Glycerol as a Feedstock
   4. Green Chemistry from the Industry's Perspective
   5. Green Oil Dispersants
   6. Green Solar
   7. New Metrics to drice safer chemical development
   8. PFCs and the Toxic Substance Control Act
   9. San Francisco Bag ban
   10. Semivolatile Organic Compounds
3. Project Posters
   1. BPA in Receipts
   2. Exposure Modeling 
   3. BioEthanol
   4. Plastic Team Poster
   5. An Industry Perspective on Green Pesticides
   6. Towards a Chemical Exposure Modeling System to classify and rank risk
   7. PV End of Life
   8. Regulating PFCs under the Toxic Substance Control Act

Course Survey

Course evaluation surveys were completed by students during week 7 and after the course had been completed. These surveys were used to adjust our teaching style and the content balance of the course.  

Download the results of our midterm survey [PDF].

The results for our final survey are still being summarized for future publication.