July 7, 2005
The College of DuPage has chosen network-based MeasureNet to replace its Labworks data acquisition interfaces in the school's Department of Chemistry laboratories. DuPage, located in suburban Chicago's Glen Ellyn community, is the largest single-campus community college in the Midwest with some 35,000 students enrolled per quarter.MeasureNet will initially perform pressure, temperature, voltage, and pH measurements in the General Chemistry lab curriculum.
The Chemistry Program is part of the school's Division of Natural and Applied Sciences. The division boasts the most comprehensive meteorological program of any community college in the United States. DuPages’s Naperville satellite campus near Aurora, Illinois will also be equipped with MeasureNet upon completion of a new chemistry laboratory.
The Firelands branch of Bowling Green State University has selected MeasureNet for use in the college's General Chemistry Laboratory. A ten-station network installation will include a shared visible-NIR spectrometer, pressure, temperature, and pH electrodes. Chemistry courses will also employ Measurenet's new dual-beam colorimeter and adapt existing Ohaus and Mettler balances for use with MeasureNet. It is also planned to make the system available to Biology courses for select experiments.
"Unlike the Physics Department, we have little room for PCs on our Chemistry lab benches. The spatial compactness of the MeasureNet System is very practical for us," explained Chemistry Instructor Linda Cornell. MeasureNet's easy-to-understand hierarchical menu structure and overall intuitive operation were also important considerations. "I have the expectation that MeasureNet will also be much easier to learn and use by our students compared to calculator and PC-based systems," said Cornell. Her program hosts many older, non-traditional students who juggle work and family obligations in addition to their classes. The Chemistry program provides core support for Masters in Nursing, Bachelors in Applied Health Science, and Associates of Science degrees.
Before joining BGSU-Firelands this past year, Cornell worked on projects for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the former Standard Oil Company of Ohio, and as a secondary school science instructor.
The campus of BGSU-Fireland's 1,800-strong student body is located in Huron, Ohio along the southern shores of Lake Erie between Cleveland and Toledo. Some 500,000 acres were granted in 1792 in this area of Connecticut's 120-mile long "Western Reserve" to compensate Connecticut victims of punitive British raids that had aimed to destroy war supplies and cripple shipping during the American Revolutionary War. Settlement got underway in 1808 after payments were completed to local Native Americans. It is the only instance in American history where civilian victims of war were compensated with land. These victims were known as the Fire Sufferers and the area's modern name Firelands is derived from abbreviating the original "Fire Sufferers Lands."
Cornell is excited about the prospects for her teaching laboratory, as well as her new data acquisition network. "MeasureNet was the only interface company to visit us to provide a workshop during our decision-making process. They have a strong level of commitment to our program and they're a lot of fun to work with!"
Virigina Tech Chemistry services some 3,000 students per semester. Freshman students entering this Fall (2004) will now have network-powered data collection from MeasureNet in six, newly-built freshman chemistry laboratories on its main campus in Blacksburg.
Each 12-station network features MeasureNet's new diode-array UV-vis spectrometer (200-800 nm range and one-nm resolution). The networked spectrometer enables up to 12 student pairs to utilize the instrument. Each spectrometer will used for emission and absorption experiments in Virginia Tech's freshman program, in addition to other probeware.. The program is ranked in the top 75 U.S. undergraduate programs by the National Research Council.
MeasureNet announced in June it has been chosen by Tennessee State University's Department of Chemistry to equip the school's General Chemistry laboratories for data acquisition.
Founded in 1912, Tennessee State primarily served the region's African-American community for many decades. The main Nashville campus began in 1947 as an extension of the University of Tennessee and merged into the former Tennessee State University in 1977 in an effort to dismantle the "duel system of education in Tennessee." Today, the university hosts nearly 6,000 graduate and undergraduate students from a variety of racial and economic backgrounds.
The Chemistry Department is housed in the Boswell Science Complex, a new 60,000 square foot building. It's equipped with state of the art teaching and research facilities, classrooms, chemical storage rooms, PC resource rooms, and library. The department hosts nearly 130 chemistry majors. Five general chemistry labs serve the department and the first MeasureNet Network is scheduled for deployment in the 2005 academic year.
"TSU is a critical step in the expansion of MeasureNet in Tennessee that began with the University of Memphis" says MeasureNet President Robert Voorhees. "We are extremely pleased to have Mohammed Karim and his dedicated colleagues on board."
Georgia Perimeter College has selected MeasureNet to upgrade its electronic data acquisition capabilities at its Clarkston Campus in Metro Atlanta. The college is the largest two-year institution in the state of Georgia and is noted for its extensive distance learning program.
MeasureNet will be installed in Clarkston's General Chemistry Lab. Nine sections of General Chemistry I and II will be offered in the fall servicing some 216 students. Many are pre-pharmacy and pre-med majors, with some coming from the school's pre-engineering program. Students typically continue on to dental school, physician assistant programs, and veterinary studies. Some students transfer to engineering programs at Georgia Tech, and others leave to pursue pharmacy and medical school opportunities.
Margaret Venable, Ph.D., Chair of the Science and Physical Education Department, said the selection of MeasureNet was a relatively straightforward decision. "We felt that MeasureNet was a good fit because of the probeware choices, the compact size (bench space is a real issue in our labs), and the ease of use. It looks like it will be easy for our part-time instructors to learn how to use and easy for our students..."
Georgia Perimeter College at Clarkston joins other notable former Labworks users now using MeasureNet including neighboring Agnes Scott College in Decatur and North Dakota State University in Fargo.
Única en Puerto Rico Inaugurada en la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Puerto Rico
Viernes, 31 de enero de 2003
Ponce, Puerto Rico
La compañía MeasureNet Technology con base en Cincinnati, Ohio inaugura hoy en las facilidades del Laboratorio de Química General de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de PR en Ponce su innovador sistema de colección de datos en los procesos de ensenanza-aprendizaje en Química - MeasureNet.
Con la instalación de este innovador equipo en su latoratorio, la PUCPR Se une a los prestigiosos programas de Ciencias de la Universidad de Southern California, Universidad de Georgia, Universidad de Memphis y la Universidad de Cincinnati las cuales están usando el sistema MeasureNet en los Estados Unidos. La PUCPR es la primera institución de Educación Superior en el Caribe que utiliza el sistema MeasureNet en sus laboratorios de Ciencias.
Aproximadamente 640 estudiantes matriculados en Quimica General en la PUCPR se beneficiarán de este sistema. La implantación de estas innovaciones constituye uno de los logros del Componente de Química del Proyecto Titulo V, Proyecto subsidiado por el Departamento de Educación Federal y la aportación de Ia Universidad para la renovación de las facilidades fisicas del Colegio de Ciencias.
Comenta Robert Voorhees, presidente de MeasureNet Technology, "La instalación de este equipo en PUCPR es el comienzo de una larga y productiva colaboración con la Universidad que beneficiará la educación de las Ciencias en PR y estamos complacidos en asociarnos a esta programa en la isla."
-- PRIMERA HORA
October 5, 2006
The College of San Mateo has made great strides to swiftly and comprehensively incorporate MeasureNet into its General Chemistry lab program. The community college recently completed an impressive Science Complex that boasts state of the art laboratories, as well as a new planetarium and 20-inch telescope. The 2-year college campus is nestled in high ground just to the east of the San Francisco State Fish and Game Refuge, with its new chemistry labs having impressive views of the Bay below.
Under the lead of instructor Michael Clay, the Chemistry Department put MeasureNet to work within two weeks of its arrival. Using experiments adapted and devised during Clay's recent sabbatical at Arizona State University, the department is currently on track to employ its two Networks in 31 experiments during the two-semester General Chemistry sequence. This marks an unprecedented level of utilization in the MeasureNet user community.
Aside from normal probeware (temperature, pressure, pH, drop counters voltage, and multi-function colorimeters), numerous experiments utilize MeasureNet's manual entry feature to organize non-MeasureNet data into spreadsheet format. Students conveniently access an entire lab's data via the department's LAN, while instructors then have student data sets from each period 'swept' into a single spreadsheet for easier viewing and analysis.
"Because of its network design," according to Clay, "MeasureNet is ideally suited for use as a 'data center,' enabling the direct entry of student data acquired from attached probeware, as well as convenient manual entry. Students then have their own and others data aggregated conveniently for analysis using spreadsheets. No other interface enables this so seamlessly as MeasureNet."
Clay's individual experiments will be available to MeasureNet users in early 2007. Contact MeasureNet for more details.
San Mateo's CHEM 210 and 220 Experiments Incorporating MeasureNet
Lab02 Accuracy of A Graduated Beaker
Lab03 Volumetric Glassware
Lab04 Measurement And Significant Figures
Lab05 Density of An Unknown Liquid
Lab06 Density of Glass Beads
Lab11 Avogadro's Number
Lab12 Molar Mass Titration
Lab13 Gas Laws
Lab14 Calorimeter Constant
Lab15 Specific Heat Of An Unknown Metal
Lab16 Hess' Law
Lab18 Heat of Fusion of Ice
Lab19 Phosphate In Detergent
Lab20 Freezing Point Depression (Molar Mass Of Sugars)
Lab22 Heat Of Combustion
Lab03 Rates Of Reaction
Lab05 Keq Value: Ethyl Acetate
Lab06 Acids and Bases: Introduction to pH
Lab07 Keq of a Weak Acid
Lab08 Titration Curves – pH vs Volume of Base
Lab09 Weak Acid Titration
Lab10 Hydrolysis
Lab11 Buffers
Lab12 Solubility Ksp Determination
Lab13 Enthalpy, Entropy, and Free Energy
Lab15 Electrochemical Cells
Lab16 Nernst Equation
Lab17 Coordination Compound
Lab18 Colligative Properties – Freezing Point
Lab19 Ion Exchange of Sea Water
Lab20 Keq of FeSCN
> Review of MeasureNet on General Chemistry Program at The College of San Mateo
MeasureNet Technology Ltd. manufactures patented, network-based data acquisition interfaces for science teaching laboratories. It is a spin-off of the University of Cincinnati's Department of Chemistry and is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. Measurenet's award-winning, PC-reducing design helps reduce laboratory maintenance and operational costs while giving students access to high quality shared UV-vis spectroscopy, gas chromatograph connectivity, high-pressure liquid chromatograph connectivity, and an array of innovative probeware. Its acclaimed intuitive design provides improved transparency to enable better science-focused, not technology-focused, learning. Winner of the Ohio Governor's Award For Excellence in Energy Efficiency, MeasureNet networks are found in universities, community colleges, high schools, and vocational training centers across the United States and around the world.
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