Ethics and Instrumental Analysis

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Ethics and Instrumental Analysis
Alanah Fitch Loyola University Chicago with Jorge
Ibanez Universidad Iberoamericana
Explore Public science Private science Ethics
of Collaborations Creating value from data
ISAJCHEM July 2001
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Ethics is incorporated into a
Required Majors Class
Lead Lab Community Based
Exploratory Learning In the
Context of Teaching Instrumentation
With a Single Analyte Text by
Alanah Fitch
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Week Topic Lab Concept
Stat Chem Isotope Ethics 1 Pb
Society Statistics and Ethics Pototo
populations x
x 2 Signals Noise LOD
Analog Digital filters x 3
Relevant Chemistry Exam I
ISE Pb(OH)2 x
4 Intro Spectroscopy
IR UV-Vis
x 5 Molecular
Spectroscopy IR UV-Vis
x 6 Fluorescence
and AA Fluorescence and
FAA x x 7 AA and Vibrational,
Exam II Fluorescence and FAA x
x 8 Break, NMR
Break 9 NMR, Orozco
NMR, ASV
x x
x 10 MS, Orozco (Field Trip)
NMR, ASV x
x x 11 Intro
Electrochem., Orozco Orozco sample prep
x x x 12
Potentiometry, Orozco Graphing Orozco
sample analysis x
x 13 ASV, Take home exam III
ICP-MS, GC
x x 14 Separations
ICP-MS, GC
x x 15
Separations
How do we know? Ethics x
x
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Explicit Exploration Lead and
Analytical Chemistry Orozco collaboration Wha
t do we owe the students beyond data? Readings
in ethics (The Needleman controversy) 1
lab class
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Implicit Exploration QC, statistics, data
recording, methodology, collaboration with
Orozco How do we know?
Public policy vs Analytical Chemistry?
Red potatos vs White potatos Pb in tooth enamel
low vs high IQ The Needleman controversy
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The Orozco and Loyola Partnership
Orozco Students Sampling
Combined Students What is Lead? Making
Templates Field Trip to Loyola (aborted) Lead
and You Graphing
Week 1 2 3 4
Loyola Students Digestions Analysis
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Week 1

• What is lead? What is lead in?
• Making a template
• Figuring out which bags we will use
• 4. Practicing using the template

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Week 3
ownership requires weekly activities ethics
requires education
Loyola Student Designed Curriculum

• Slide show on public health
• Slide show also discusses the analytical
  procedure
• Active materials
• - crossword puzzle
• - word search

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• Across
• the system of pipes and other apparatus for
  conveying water, liquid wastes, etc., as in a
  building
• the fluid that circulates and carries oxygen
  throughout the human body
• being placed at risk
• 8 the quality of degree of being toxic
  or harmful to plants or animal life
• 9. the introduction of harmful substances or
  products into the environment
• a mixture of pigment and liquid
• 12. food, eating healthy
• 14. a pain located in the head
• 15. the age group affected most by lead
  poisoning
• 17. President on the 20 bill
• a transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid, a
  compound of hydrogen and oxygen, H20, that
  constitutes rain, oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.
• . to take ill through eating
• Down
• 2. a heavy, comparatively soft, malleable,
  bluish-gray metal. A toxic metal, that has been
  widely used in paints, plumbing and fixtures, and
  in some water supply service lines
• 3. composer thought to have had lead poisoning
• 5. the portion of the earth's surface consisting
  of dirt
• 6. the air, water, minerals, organisms, and all
  other external factors surrounding and affecting
  a given organism at any time

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Week 4
Graphing the data In practice we found that
students were not prepared to make Histograms.
We intend to create one session around
graphing Candy.
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Prof. Jorge Ibanez Teacher
Rachel Barry Universidad Iberoamericana
Orozco School Mexico City
Chicago, Il.
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Week Topic Lab Concept
Stat Chem Isotope Ethics 1 Pb
Society Statistics and Ethics Pototo
populations x
x 2 Signals Noise LOD
Analog Digital filters x 3
Relevant Chemistry Exam I
ISE Pb(OH)2 x
x 4 Intro Spectroscopy
IR UV-Vis
x 5 Molecular
Spectroscopy IR UV-Vis
x 6 Fluorescence
and AA Fluorescence and
FAA x x 7 AA and Vibrational,
Exam II Fluorescence and FAA x
x 8 Break, NMR
Break 9 NMR, Orozco
NMR, ASV
x x
x 10 MS, Orozco (Field Trip)
NMR, ASV x
x x 11 Intro
Electrochem., Orozco Orozco sample prep
x x x 12
Potentiometry, Orozco Graphing Orozco
sample analysis
x 13 ASV, Take home exam III
ICP-MS, GC
x x 14 Separations
ICP-MS, GC
x x 15
Separations
How do we know? Ethics x
x
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Explicit Ethics Lab How do we know? How do we
have confidence? What do we owe our
collaborators? What do we owe science? Is it the
same? How do we engage in scientific dispute?
Reading of a series of articles
exchanged between Needlemen and his
detractors What ethical reasoning systems do we
apply to explain the behavior of
Needleman and his detractors?
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The future Partnership
Orozco Students Sampling Family Night
Loyola Students Digestions Analysis
Week 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Combined Students What is Lead? Making
Templates Field Trip to Loyola Lead and
You Graphing Exercise Graphing
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Grading
Student participation in at one of the
collaborations with Orozco. QC Reports Exa
ms Final