COURSE UNIT TITLE

: OPTIC SENSORS IN CHEMISTRY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
KIM 5046 OPTIC SENSORS IN CHEMISTRY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR KADRIYE ERTEKIN

Offered to

Chemistry
Chemistry

Course Objective

The course aims to provide a general understanding of the optical chemical sensors , advantages and disadvantages of optical sensing, fields of application and analytical aspects of sensors.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Understanding of basic instrumentation, (batch and flow systems), fiber optics and signal transducers for optical chemical sensing.
2   Undurstanding of indicator chemistry and analyte on basis of consequences, understanding of interactions taking place on sensor surface and solution
3   Matrix materials and immobilization of indicators (PVC, ethyl cellulose, sol-gel, hydrogels..), thin film preperation
4   Students are expected to perform analyte specific sensor design
5   Students should be able to adopt their general information regarding sensor design for different applications.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to optical sensors
2 Instrumentation in optical chemical sensors
3 Transducers in optical chemical sensors
4 Fiber optics and optical chemical sensors
5 Sensors working on basis of conventional spectroscopic techniques
6 Matrix materials exploited in optical sensor design, immobilization techniques (mechanic, electrostatic and covalent immobilization
7 Miniaturazition of sensors
8 PVC, hydrogel, sol-gel based optical chemical sensors
9 Interactions taking place matrix analyte interface
10 Thin film preparation techniques
11 PVC based optical sensor applications (project based presentations by students)
12 Sol-gel based optical sensor applications (presentations by students)
13 Hydrogel and ethyl cellulose based optical sensor applications (presentations by students)
14 Final assesment of student presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Fiber Optic Chemical Sensors and Biosensors, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1991, vols. 1 & 2.
2. Fluorescence Spectroscopy: New Methods and Applications, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 1993
3. The Fluorescence of Organic Natural Products", Molecular Luminescence Spectroscopy: Methods & Applications (S. G. Schulman, ed.), Wiley & Sons, New York, 1985, vol. 1.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Presentataion by lecturer and by students
Interactive discussion

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 PRS PRESENTATION
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE PRS * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) PRS * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria


Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

As same as with the policies shown in the website of the institution.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Prof. Dr. Kadriye Ertekin
e-mail:kadriye.ertekin@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Presentation by lecturer 12 3 36
Student presentations 4 3 12
Preparation before/after weekly lectures 12 5 60
Preparation for presentataions, 4 15 60
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Final exam 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 191

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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