Presentation Timings

17 Mar 202217 Mar 2022

The challenge One of the assignments I set each year is for a group of students to prepare a narrated powerpoint presentation. It's a useful exercise (I think), the students…

HPLC analysis on a spreadsheet

11 Jun 202111 Jun 2021

Help! Covid means we can't huddle four or five students round an HPLC system. Any lab-based HPLC experiments we do will take ages! And that's before we decontaminate each HPLC…

UV analysis on a spreadsheet

2 Nov 20203 Dec 2020

Aaarrrggghhh! An increase in Covid numbers in Scotland (and especially Glasgow) has meant we've had a weeks notice to swap our UV labs from face-to-face to online. I've rehashed one…

PID controller

18 Apr 202026 Jul 2020

A few weeks ago I sat in on an online Q&A seminar run by one of my colleagues (and course co-co-cordinater!), Daniel Markl. One of the questions that came up…

Course (re)design II

22 May 201922 May 2019

As part of the course (re)design module I've been asked to redesign an example class or course project. An lovely challenge was that our reflections had to be vlogged! Two…