Principal Investigator
Prof. Benjamin Kocar, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Fund:
Alumni Class Funds
Funding Period:
AY2015
Department/Lab/Center:
Civil and Environmental Engineering
We propose the acquisition of a microwave digestion and solvent extraction system for the Ralph M. Parsons undergraduate teaching laboratory, department of CEE. This instrument will greatly expand our capacity to analyze contaminants, nutrients, and other inorganic and organic constituents in a variety of natural and engineered systems. Specifically, it will allow undergraduates to analyze solid samples (not limited to soils, sediments, and biological tissues) with our pre-‐existing analytical equipment, including an ICP-‐MS and GC-‐MS. It will enable them to obtain high quality data from field samples with high throughput, and will expose them to cutting-‐edge sample preparation techniques widely used in academia, industry, and government laboratories.