Committee on Computers
in Chemical Education

OLCC: Industry/Environment Spring 2000

Announcing:   OLCC-IV Environmental and Industrial Chemistry

This is an invitation to register your school for the On-Line Chemistry
Course for upper-class Chemistry Students to be held during the spring term
of this academic year.  The on-line activities will be scheduled for
February, March, and April 2000. The title of the course will be
"Environmental and Industrial Chemistry". The course is sponsored by the
American Chemical Society Division of Chemical Education's Committee on
Computers in Chemical Education (CCCE).  Action required in fall of 1999
includes scheduling a special topics course in your school's calendar for
spring 2000 and enrollment of those faculty intending to teach the special
topics course in an on-line planning conference for the Fall.

In this course, the Internet will be used for discussions among students,
faculty, and experts: on campus, across the nation, and, potentially,
around the world.  E-mail assisted conferencing software will be used.

******Details of the Course******

A primary objective of the OLCC-IV is interaction of faculty and students
about chemistry at a distance.  Goals are stated in terms of process and in
terms of content.  A broad menu of goals for the course is given here.
During the planning phase, fall 1999, faculty will prioritize, discuss, and
select objectives suited to their students' situations.

"Process Goals" Related to the Environmental and Industrial Chemistry Course:

1. To provide an electronic forum which permits students easy, significant
interaction with professionals (instructors, scientists, government
officials, and potential employers),

2. To provide a context in which students will interact locally and at a
distance to do brain-storming, data-gathering and problem-solving in order
to deal with the modern use of chemical materials.

3.  To provide an opportunity for students to research, develop, and
synthesize complex ideas, and to build interrelationships between concepts
and issues though intelligent technical discourse.

4. To provide the incentive for investigation of the physical and chemical
properties of a specific commercial chemical product.

5. To provide guidance for students in accessing and interpreting
electronic and printed documents describing the chemistry of industry and
the environment written by corporate, governmental, and/or academic authors.

Responsibilities of Participants

Students will participate in collaborative learning assignments where they
can practice division of labor, teamwork, and individual responsibility.
The electronic medium will be used by the students to seek insight into
concepts they have difficulty with as well as to respond to difficult
concepts posed by colleagues (their peers). The instructors will interact
with the students at their own sites,  guiding library work, prompting
questions, and so on, while the students and faculty will write to each
other as colleagues across sites.  Students will be encouraged to interact
with each other and perform library investigation before they question the
authors of the works. Student collaborative groups will be facilitated to
pose higher order questions to the experts.

We anticipate that an essential core of faculty will respond to the
documents and each other in order to formulate critical thinking questions,
classroom activities, and writing assignments to be made available for
adoption by any or all of the other participants. Faculty/expert
facilitators may review and select Industry Sectors, and nominate them for
study, from the USEPA Industry Sector Notebook Reports (described below).

It is the responsibility of each participating institution to register
students and to provide college credit for the course. The role of the OLCC
organizing committee and the CCCE is limited to assistance in organizing
and administering electronic aspects of the course. No credit will be given
and no fees will be assessed by the American Chemical Society. It is
suggested that 3 semester hours of student credit would be appropriate in
most cases for full participation in this project.  It will be the
responsibility of each local faculty member to assign grades to the
individual, local students.


"Content Goals" Related to the Environmental and Industrial Chemistry Course:

1. to develop greater insight into the application of chemical science to
environmental concerns.

2.  To explore industrial chemicals production and use in industrial
sectors, and to perform life cycle analysis of their benefits to society
and their impact on the environment.

For example: How is the chemical obtained?  What is it used for? How much
energy is used to make it?  Is it easily disposed of?  Why do we need so
much of it?  How do we get more of it?  And, what opportunities for
pollution and pollution prevention exist in the production, use, and
disposal of these chemicals?

All participating faculty will be involved in the selection of content.  A
theme of "chemistry behind pollution prevention" is suggested.  Core
documents have been compiled by the United States Environmental Protection
Agency, Research and Development Headquarters, for the Office of
Enforcement and Compliance.

     They are indexed at an EPA website:   The notebooks are available in
PDF at the web site  http://es.epa.gov/oeca/sector/index.html  A separate
notebook has been developed by the EPA Office of Compliance covering
several major industrial groups focusing on key indicators that
holistically present air, water, and land pollutant release data.  The
notebooks range from 84 to 164 pages and include bibliographic references
and a description of research methodology.

Each sector-specific notebook includes: A comprehensive environmental
profile, industrial process information, pollution prevention techniques,
pollutant release data, regulatory requirements, compliance/enforcement
history, innovative programs, and contact names.

Industrial sector notebooks are available for the following sectors: Dry
Cleaning Industry, Electronics and Computer Industry, Wood Furniture and
Fixtures Industry, Inorganic Chemical Industry, Iron and Steel Industry,
Lumber and Wood Products Industry, Fabricated Metal Products Industry,
Federal Facilities (PDF), Metal Mining Industry, Motor Vehicle Assembly
Industry, Nonferrous Metals Industry, Non-Fuel, Non-Metal Mining Industry,
Organic Chemical Industry, Petroleum Refining Industry, Printing Industry,
Pulp and Paper Industry, Rubber and Plastic Industry, Stone, Clay, Glass
and Concrete Industry, Transportation Equipment Cleaning Industry.

For further information about the Environmental and Industrial  Chemistry
on-line courses, see the following WebPages:

OLCC-I
        http://www.clarkson.edu/~rosen2/olcc.html

OLCC-II
	http://wey238ab.ch.iup.edu/olccii/index.html
	http://www.chem.mwsc.edu:8080/~98

For more information contact one of the organizing committee members.

The Organizing Committee for OLCC-IV
http://www.chem.mwsc.edu:8080/~OLCCSpring2000

Committee Chair and Faculty Facilitator:
Dr. Sylvia Esjornson
Department of Chemistry
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Weatherford, OK 73096
(580) 774-7032
esjorns@swosu.edu

WebBoard Administrator:
Dr. Leonard Archer
Department of Chemistry
Missouri Western State College
St. Joseph, MO 64507
818-271-4468
archer@griffon.mwsc.edu

Publicity/Registration:
Dr. James Beard
Department of Chemistry
Catawba College
Salisbury, NC 28144
704-637-4113
jbeard@catawba.edu

CCCE Liaison & Listserv Manager:
Dr. Donald Rosenthal
Box 5810
Department of Chemistry
Clarkson University
Potsdam, NY 13699-5810
313-265-9242 or 268-2352
rosen2@clvm.clarkson.edu

Those interested in participating during the spring 2000 semester should
complete the following pre-registration/interest form and send to the
OLCC-IV registration coordinator, Dr. James Beard at 
 by October 15, 1999.  All registered schools  
will be contacted and asked to reconfirm their participation between 
December 3, 1999 and January 14, 2000.  Late registrations will be 
accepted, but registration by October 15, 1999 is preferred so that 
we may plan the course together.  A list of participating students 
will be due by January 31, 2000. 
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		Environmental and Industrial Chemistry

	                           Spring 2000

	                On-Line Course Registration Form

RESPONDENTS ARE ASKED TO EXPAND SPACES AS NECESSARY TO
ANSWER QUESTIONS.

Institution:

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City:

State:

Primary Course Instructor:

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Other Instructor(s) Involved (if any):

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Spring 2000 Calendar:

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Indicate the type and approximate size of your institution.

Large University  ___    Mid-Size Univeristy  ___

Small University or College   ___  Other ___ (Explain)

Public Institution ___   Private Institution ___

Less than 1000 undergraduate students ___

1000 to 5000 undergraduate students ___

5000 to 10000 undergraduate students ___

Over 10000 undergraduate students ___

All students will be expected to have access to E-mail and the
World Wide Web.

What type of E-mail system do you have?

What web browser do you use?

Return this form to jbeard@catawba.edu.
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