A Virtual Instrumental Analysis Laboratory (VIAL) for Buffalo State and Open SUNY Jinseok Heo, Alexander Nazarenko, M. Scott Goodman, and Jamie Kime Department of Chemistry, Buffalo State College RESULTS CONCLUSIONS AND PLANS BACKGROUND INFORMATION ABSTRACT We present the development of a Virtual Instrumental Analysis Laboratory (VIAL) platform for Buffalo State and SUNY campuses. We will report the effectiveness of the VIAL for students’ gaining knowledge and skills in using advanced analytical instruments that were newly acquired in the Department of Chemistry at Buffalo State College.We will also show the possibility of remote controlling of the analytical instruments, so that off-campus users can directly benefit from our advanced facilities. PROPOSED IDEA ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS IITG 2013 Grant Megan Niesyty, Jennifer Gibson, and Anna Copelad (Buffalo State Students) ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS IITG 2013 Grant Megan Niesyty, Jennifer Gibson, and Anna Copelad (Buffalo State Students) AIMS of the PROJECT o Aim 1. To effectively educate students to use modern analytical instruments by combining virtual and hands-on lab experiences o Aim 2. To provide learning opportunities with advanced analytical instruments to students, faculty, and staff at other SUNY institutions o Aim 3. To provide professional training on data acquisition and processing to the local scientific community (Future) o Aim 4. To investigate the feasibility of remote control of advanced analytical instruments (Future) o Aim 1. To effectively educate students to use modern analytical instruments by combining virtual and hands-on lab experiences o Aim 2. To provide learning opportunities with advanced analytical instruments to students, faculty, and staff at other SUNY institutions o Aim 3. To provide professional training on data acquisition and processing to the local scientific community (Future) o Aim 4. To investigate the feasibility of remote control of advanced analytical instruments (Future) What is Analytical Chemistry? Quantitative Analysis Qualitative Analysis Wet analysis Instrumental analysis Skills and knowledge required for instrumental analysis Knowledge of the principles and the hardware of the instrument Reliable data Troubleshooting for the instruments Reliable data Troubleshooting for the instruments Knowledge of the software for the instrument Collect, process, and analyze data Skills of using software package for plotting graphs and treating data statistically Present data Acquisition of major analytical instruments with the opening of new science building at Buffalo State in Spring 2013 Buffalo State Campus Students On-site education and training? Other SUNY Campus Other SUNY Campus OPEN SUNY? WNY community Service? On-line tutorials on analytical instruments (AIMS 1 & 2)  Include descriptions of the underlying principles of the analysis, sample preparation steps, instructions on the software for acquiring and processing data, demonstrations of running the instruments, and simple maintenance procedures.  Use animation, video clips, on-line test, and webinar  Available through Blackboard and eventually available through SUNY digital repository Buffalo State CHE 403 course materials posted in Blackboard (Spring 2014) Live demonstrations of the equipment with audio, video, and screen-sharing tools (AIMS 1 - 3)  Include live demo and recording for later viewing on campus  Can be extended to off-campus scientific community in future Remote control of analytical instruments (AIM 4) Buffalo State Campus Other SUNY Campus Other SUNY Campus Instrument A User Lab Manager Control Data Sample Creation of video tutorials on analytical instruments Four faculty experts participated in this project Dr. Jinseok Heo for Thermo DXR Raman microscope (5 tutorials) Dr. Jamie Kim for Agilent GC and GC-MS and Shimadzu GC (3 tutorials) Dr. Scott Goodman for Bruker Avance III NMR (in-progress) Dr. Alexandaer Nazarenko for Bruker D8 Venture X-ray diffractometer (in-progress) Video tutorials created by Heo and his student Assessment of the effect of video tutorials on students’ skills on analytical instrument  Assessed 11 students enrolled in CHE 403 (analytical instrument) class of Spring 2014  Two analytical instruments were chosen. One lab experiment (Raman lab) was provided with video tutorials but the other lab (IR lab) was with a conventional lab manual format.  Compared the class average scores of the two lab reports  At the end of the semester students’ performing skills on the two instruments were assessed and the class averages for the two instruments were compared. We did not find any statistical difference between the Raman lab and the IR lab from the perspective of lab report scores and practical lab skills. Managing the analytical lab was much easier after introducing the video tutorials. Interacting with broader groups of students were made possible. Live demonstration of analytical instrument using remote desktop connection In-class demonstration of Ft-IR instrument located in other lab. The instrument could be controlled by the in-class computer through remote desktop connection. o VIAL platform is potentially useful for helping students acquire skills and knowledge required for analytical instruments but more data is needed to make a decisive conclusion. o More video tutorials will be incorporated to assist lab courses at Buffalo State and will be available through SUNY digital repository. o We demonstrate that analytical instruments can be remotely controlled on-campus. Theoretically off-campus users may access to them.