SAMEP STUDENT

SAMEP – STUDENT TRACK

The mission of the student track of SAMEP is to provide a unique educational forum and means to augment the formal learning experiences of all high school and college science students. The SAMEP mission includes expanding life potentials of all science students interested in advancing their awareness and knowledge beyond their formal school courses in chemistry as well as courses in other physical sciences and engineering.

A salient feature and achievement of SAMEP has been the development of a new series of educational short courses on analytical measurement science and chemical metrology. The course content provides science students with a new and unique insight into how analytical measurements impact the quality (or lack of quality) of outcomes in scientific research, problem-solving, chemical analysis and testing throughout the world. SAMEP instructional material is specifically designed to augment and enhance current course material taught in traditional school science classes by showing true real-world relevance of mathematics, chemistry, physics and other sciences in every day life.

In addition to helping advanced students meet their own personal learning objectives, another important goal of SAMEP courses is to help unleash the untapped learning potentials of high school and college students interested in the physical sciences that are currently struggling with their studies. The special SAMEP courses can provide them with renewed hope, confidence and a new energized approach to overcoming the hurdles that contributed to the decline in their interest and achievement in school science classes.

The benefits realized from attending a SAMEP short course can be immediate. For the high school science student, it may be simply gaining an advantage in being admitted to the college or university of choice as well as now being empowered to possibly select a different course major that can open doors to a new and exciting career path. Similarly, for the college science or engineering student, it may be being simply gaining an advantage in the competitive job market upon graduation.

SAMEP COURSE LISTING

All SAMEP student courses are comprised of lecture-based tutorial instruction and hands-on laboratory demonstrations and experiments.

SAMEP Course 101 – Analytical Measurement Science and Chemical Metrology

The inaugural summer class is designed to be of introductory nature in regard to the many different real-world scenarios. Each applied scenario is being developed with much greater detail and example into its own short course that interested students will be able to register for and attend at a later date. Enrollment in each of the specialty classes has the prerequisite the student must have first enrolled in and completed the introductory short course (Course 101). This course is foundational in that all other courses build upon this one.

SAMEP Course Series 200 is comprised of individual courses describing and explaining the fundamental techniques that most common relative to analytical measurement science and chemical metrology. Successful enrollment in Course 101 is a prerequisite for registration in any of the individual courses comprising this series. Individual courses in the Series 200 that have been developed, or are currently in the development stage, for common analytical measurement techniques include, but are not limited to, the following:

• • • Spectroscopy
    • Chromatography
    • Electrochemistry
    • Mass Spectrometry
    • Lasers

SAMEP Course Series 300 is comprised of individual courses describing different real-world scientific and engineering applications in which analytical measurement science and chemical metrology play an important role, both currently and in the future. Individual courses in the exciting Series 300 that have been developed, or are currently in the development stage, include, but are not limited to, the following:

• • • Crime laboratory and other forensic science applications
    • Clinical laboratory
    • Drinking water and hazardous materials
    • Industrial hygiene and home indoor air quality
    • Environmental analysis and green-house gases
    • Energy, mining and petrochemicals

• Jerry Messman, PhD, Director
• Marla Messman, Operations Assistant
• Sharra Beighkley, College Student Intern

Instructor Credentials – Jerry D. Messman, PhD [Analytical Chemistry, University of Maryland – College Park]

Please contact Dr. Jerry Messman for more information about class venues, registration fees and schedule. You may e-mail Jerry at [email protected]. No phone calls please.