Fall 2001 - Information for Chemistry 1010, Section 001 - Instructor: Dr. Tom Furtsch

Dear Chemistry 1010 Student:

Because of my absence from campus until late Wednesday night, this Class will not meet again until Friday, August 25th . Here is some information you will need to digest and some things you should accomplish before class meets on Friday.

1.  Have copies of the text book, and lab manual by the time class meets Friday.

• Text: General, Organic and Biochemistry, Connecting Chemistry To Your Life, Blei and Odian (Freeman, 2001) .
• Lab Manual: Chemical Laboratory For The Non-science Student, Furtsch, et.al.
• Make sure that you have goggles for lab and any other items you will need, when it meets for the first time. (Lab will meet in Room 201 for lab lecture.  The first week we will check in only.  So meet in Room 210, get the safety information check into lab and then you can go home.)

2. Go to a campus computer lab and get yourself logged onto the TTU campus network. Instructions are on the wall of the lab in Foster Hall Room 326.

• You should learn to log on to your account on the TTU Email system using Outlook or Web Mail (see icons on startup screen) and be able to send and receive messages.  We will be using this method of communicating a lot this semester.
• You can usually logon for the first time by typing your name which will be the first three initials followed by the last 4 digits of your SS#.  Your initial password will be your SS# with no hyphens.  If you have trouble, ask the student assistant in the lab.
• Send me and e-mail message at address tfurtsch@tntech.edu to show me that you are logged on and ready to go.
• You may use the computing lab in Foster Hall 326 (third floor to the left around the corner.)  You should become familiar with this room and other labs like it around campus.  Search around and find them.  There are many places you can do computing and access the World Wide Web on campus.

3.  Using MS-Internet Explorer or Netscape, check out the Chemistry 101 WEB page, for this section and familiarize yourself with the resources available there. 

• The URL for our page is http://iweb.tntech.edu/chem101-tf/.
• My Home page is found at http://iweb.tntech.edu/tfurtsch/, and you can also access the course page and several others from that address. 
• ALL information pertinent to this section will be published at one of these web sites.
• Make yourself a copy of the course syllabus and lab schedule from the web page.

You should have plenty of questions for me when we meet on Friday regarding course content, grading, exams. etc. We will "hit the ground running".
/tf