Research

Research Focus

Our research focuses on creating a Next Generation Digital Learning Environment for Chemistry (NGDLEC). 

Projects Include:

• Using Microsoft OneNote to implement a fully digital lecture and laboratory experience, including real-time digital lecture notes, an electronic homework notebook, an electronic laboratory notebook, and online grading.

• Developing laboratory experiments which interface directly to Electronic Laboratory Notebooks using Vernier Inc. probeware, iPads, and Apple Pencils.

• Developing new, web-based simulations of general chemistry laboratory experiments.

Implemented Projects at Purdue:

• “Copper (II) chloride dihydrate”  A complete virtual lab to determine molecular formula. (2024)
• “Beer’s Law Lab”  A Lab-Realistic Simulation. (2023)
• "Fluoresence Quenching" A General Chemistry Teaching Experiment. (2022)

• "How Much Iron is in My Cereal?”   A General Chemistry teaching laboratory experiment. (2021)

• “Coffee-Cup Calorimetry Simulation”  A simulation used by General Chemistry Laboratory Students. (2021)

• "Metal Ion Sensor" A revised Cu ion sensor experiment that eliminates hazardous waste from the previous silver ion sensor experiment. (2021)

• We created an Apple Pencil charger in conjunction with the Purdue Amy Facility. Read about our project here.(2021)

• Snorkel Instructional Video - created by Anjali Pursai to teach students how to use the Nederman Bench Top Extraction Arms in the new chemistry labs in Chaney Hale Hall. (2021)
• "Thin Layer Chromatography Simulation" A Simulation used by General Chemistry Students. (2021)