Spring 2027

Chemical Instrumentation

Covers basic principles for designing, developing, and using chemical instrumentation in the laboratory, emphasizing spectroscopy, separations, and mass spectrometry.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 No instructors listed

Summary

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Past student reviews · Frank Keutsch

Students found the tests manageable, noting they were not too bad during the course.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Demonstrate knowledge of the fundamental principles for the design of chemical instrumentation.

  • Apply knowledge of chemical instrumentation to make effective chemical measurements.

  • Critically analyze and evaluate results of measurements made with chemical instrumentation

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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(CHEM 116, 327, or 329),CHEM 343,MATH 222, and (PHYSICS 202, 208, or 248)

CHEM 524

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Professors

Spring 2027

No instructors recorded for this selection.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

FRANK KEUTSCH is recorded teaching in Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 480
LAB 302Classroom Instruction0 / 80
LAB 303Classroom Instruction0 / 80
LAB 304Classroom Instruction0 / 80
LAB 301Classroom Instruction0 / 00
LAB 305Classroom Instruction0 / 00
LAB 306Classroom Instruction0 / 00

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Frank Keutsch

Frank Keutsch was knowledgeable and the tests were not too bad, though the review is from a historical period.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.64 GPA, 86.2% A/AB (n=29 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.29 GPA, 57.1% A/AB (n=35 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.38 GPA, 60.0% A/AB (n=20 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Frank Keutsch

Students found the tests manageable, noting they were not too bad during the course.

Past student reviews · Frank Keutsch

The instructor was perceived as good and knowledgeable about the subject matter.

Topics

  • Spectroscopy, separations, and mass spectrometry instruments
  • Design, development, and use of chemical instrumentation
  • Laboratory application of instrumentation principles

Skills

  • Designing chemical instrumentation based on fundamental principles
  • Making effective chemical measurements using instrumentation
  • Analyzing and evaluating measurement results from chemical instruments

Grades

Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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Not enough comparable courses for Spring 2027 in UW–Madison.

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Catalog & offerings

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Selected offering source records
CHEM 524 · Spring 2027

Chemical Instrumentation

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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Model & dataset provenance 
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