Chemistry: An Industry-Based Introduction with CD-ROM

What a great idea--an introductory chemistry text that connects students to the workplace of practicing chemists and chemical technicians! Tying chemistry fundamentals to the reality of industrial life, Chemistry: An Industry-Based Introduction with CD-ROM covers all the basic principles of chemistry including formulas and names, chemical bonding, stoichiometry, solutions, and more. It includes scale-ups from the lab bench, examples of industrial significance, and interviews with actual workers in industry. Each chapter provides side boxes and special homework assignments that connect the material to the industrial workplace and provide for related investigations outside the classroom. The innovative layout of topics incorporates organic chemistry early and addresses concepts requiring algebra and math beginning with the seventh chapter. There are dozens of chemistry texts available, but this is the only one that gives students a look at what really goes on in the chemist's world of work -- and does it with ease! Chemistry: An Industry-Based Introduction with CD-ROM also comes with an exciting, innovative and interactive CD-ROM that provides a study guide containing 40 review questions per chapter and animation, sound, and artwork to help the student visualize the concepts. It also sets up a virtual workplace in which the student is an employee of a fictional company and faces real-life scenarios and discovers their solutions. The entire package, with CD-ROM, side boxes, and practical assignments, provides an innovative approach that chemistry educators everywhere will want to use in their courses. These -- combined with a clear readable writing style -- represent an exciting new twist for introductory chemistry.

Table of Contents:
The Components and Properties of Matter. Compounds and Reactions. Atomic Structure. The Periodic Table. Chemical Combination. Organic Chemicals. Making and Using Measurements. Moles and Stoichiometry. Gases and Gas Laws. Solutions. Chemical Equilibrium. Acids and Bases. Energy in Chemical Processes. Oxidation-Reduction Processes. Nuclear Energy and Power. Introduction to Biochemistry.

About the Author :
John Kenkel is a chemistry instructor at Southeast Community College in Lincoln, Nebraska. Throughout his 23-year career at SCC, he has been directly involved in the education of chemistry-based laboratory technicians in a vocational program called Environmental Laboratory Technology. He has also been heavily involved in chemistry-based laboratory technician education on a national scale, having served on a number of American Chemical Society committees including the Committee on Technician Activities and the Coordinating Committee for the Voluntary Industry Standards project. In addition to these, he has served a five-year term on the ACS Committee on Chemistry in the Two-Year College, the committee that organizes the Two-Year College Chemistry Consortium conferences. He was the chair of this committee in 1996. Mr. Kenkel has authored several popular textbooks for chemistry-based technician education. Analytical Chemistry for Technicians was first published in 1988. A second edition of this book was published in 1994. In addition, he has authored two other books, the Analytical Chemistry Refresher Manual published in 1992 and A Primer on Quality in the Analytical Laboratory, which was published in 2000. All were published through CRC Press/Lewis Publishers. Mr. Kenkel has been the Principal Investigator for a series of curriculum development project grants funded by the National Science Foundation’s Advanced Technological Education Program. The current textbook and laboratory manual, Chemistry: An Industry-Based Introduction and Chemistry: An Industry-Based Laboratory Manual were produced under these grants. He has also authored or co-authored four articles on the curriculum work in recent issues of the Journal of Chemical Education and has presented this work at more than a dozen conferences since 1994. In 1996, Mr. Kenkel won the prestigious National Responsible Care Catalyst Award for excellence in chemistry teaching sponsored by the Chemical Manufacturer’s Association. He has a master’s degree in chemistry from the University of Texas in Austin (1972) and a bachelor’s degree in chemistry (1970) from Iowa State University. His research at the University of Texas was directed by Professor Allen Bard. He was employed as a chemist from 1973 to 1977 at Rockwell International’s Science Center in Thousand Oaks, California. Paul Kelter is Marie Foscue Rourk Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro (UNCG). This endowed chair in Chemical Education is the first such chair in the United States. Kelter arrived at UNCG in the fall of 1999 after six successful years at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). Kelter was honored with a host of teaching and scholarship awards at UNL, including the Student Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award (1996 and 1997, the first two years of the award), induction into the UNL Academy of Distinguished Teachers (1999), and the University of Nebraska Outstanding Teaching and Instructional Creativity Award (1999). These are the latest awards for this nationally known teacher-scholar who has also received the University of Wisconsin Distinguished Teaching Award (1990) and the Wisconsin Society of Science Teachers Regional Award for Excellence in Science Education (1990). Dr. Kelter has published over 40 journal articles, a popular textbook, Chemistry: A World of Choices (McGraw-Hill), several best-selling chemistry study guides (Houghton Mifflin), and a number of chemistry CDs. He is currently writing a textbook, Chemistry: The Nature of Change (Houghton Mifflin) on which he is the lead author, and is consulting for a textbook in analytical chemistry (David Hage, lead author, Houghton Mifflin). Kelter has also received over $6 million in competitive grants for his chemical education efforts. Dr. Kelter currently teaches undergraduate courses in general and analytical chemistry and graduate level courses in forensic chemistry and chemical education. David S. Hage is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has received numerous research awards and has published over 65 research articles in the fields of analytical chemistry and biological and environmental testing. He is also the author of several book chapters on analytical techniques for undergraduate chemistry texts. He currently teaches undergraduate courses in quantitative analysis and instrumental analysis, and graduate-level courses in chromatography, advanced chemical equilibria, and data-handling methods. Dr. Hage is the lead author on a new textbook for analytical chemistry that is in preparation (Houghton Mifflin).