Anonymous course feedback CHEM-E1130 and CHEM-E1140

27.05.2019

The course feedback from courses CHEM-E1130 Catalysis and CHEM-E1140 Catalysis for biomass refining for academic year 2018-2019 is ready. Everyone can access the feedback via the following links. There are interesting viewpoints included e.g. of using Panopto lecture capture and on an Individual article assignment module which could perhaps be offered to all CHEM MSc students some day.

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Co-creation afternoon with AaltoCatalysis+ networking evening

28.03.2019

On Tue 26 March, we had a co-creation afternoon with the group. In the evening, we continued with an information networking event, where all my doctoral students and their advisors were invited. All doctoral students + the current one postdoc had a chance to introduce themselves with a max 1 slide / 3 min presentation. Those who were not present, were offered the possibility to make a max 3 min video introduction of oneself, which we would watch together.

I write this post mostly as a ”note to self”, to come back to when organising the next event — quite surely, some will follow. The presentation materials  (who are we + Open Science MOOC report) can be shared in a limited way with my doctoral students, only I am not yet sure, how to best do this. The Panopto capture of my presentation on doctoral studies can be viewew by anyone at Aalto University, through this link, also available through the My Courses site Thesis supervision Riikka Puurunen 2018 – . There were 8 persons present in the cocreation part and 11 in the evening part. And one video to watch — thanks for its creator(s) 😊.

Agenda

  • Start at Micronova at 12:30 (sauna space, 5th floor)
  • First: we will have a regular max-1 h team meeting (hopefully less) (5 min results/news + Riikka general stuff)
  • Co-creation part, things to do pre-planned

More people invited from 16:30 on, AaltoCatalysis+ networking evening

Communicated agenda (reality was slightly different):

  • 16:30 Arrival in Micronova
  • Opening & update of doctoral studies at Aalto CHEM / Catalysis (Puurunen, max 20 min – Panopto record made for sharing?)
  • Pizza time
  • Who are we? Short presentations (max ~ 3 min) by the doctoral students & postdocs (along with pizza)
  • Learnings from a MOOC on Open Science (max ~15 min)
  • Sauna and free time

 

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Doctoral thesis defense Aalto CHEM 29.3.2019: M.Sc. Salla Jaatinen

20.03.2019

https://www.aalto.fi/events/defence-of-dissertation-in-the-field-of-chemical-engineering-msctech-salla-jaatinen

M.Sc.(Tech.) Salla Jaatinen will defend the dissertation “Carbon Catalysts in Biofuel Production: from Furfural to 2-Methylfuran” on 29 March 2019 at 12 in Aalto University School of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, lecture hall Ke2, Kemistintie 1, Espoo.

Opponent: Professor Edd Blekkan, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway

Supervisor: Professor Riikka Puurunen, Aalto University School of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering

Press release: https://www.aalto.fi/sites/g/files/flghsv161/files/2019-03/press_release_salla_jaatinen.pdf

Thesis link: https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/handle/123456789/37049 read more >>

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Prof. Puurunen invited tutorial at ALD for Industry Berlin 2019

19.03.2019

On March 19, 2019, I gave an invited tutorial at the ALD for Industry event by … In an Open Teaching atmosphere, I created a Panopto record of the talk and the talk is shared openly.

The publication of the slides in SlideShare & video in Youtube waited for the publication of the review article: Conformality in atomic layer deposition: Current status overview of analysis and modelling, by Cremers, Puurunen & Dendooven, Applied Physics Reviews 6, 021302 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5060967.

Update notes:

  • Links to SlideShare & Youtube updated 6.4.2019
  • Link to Applied Physics Reviews article updated 8.4.2019

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Lecture capture: Adsorption-controlled catalyst preparation by ALD

25.02.2019

Lecture capture shared in an Open Teaching way: CHEM-E1130 Catalysis course, by Prof. Riikka Puurunen: Adsorption-controlled catalyst preparation by ALD (atomic layer deposition).

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Post updated 26.2.2019: links to Youtube videos added

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Teaching partner: Teaching trial with lightboard (Langmuir isotherm)

10.01.2019

Being on tenure track at Aalto University, I need to follow pedagogical studies – which is great! One of the on-going activities is “teaching partner” with my own pedagogical mentor. I get to do trials with teaching – these are planned with justification, made, and afterwards, reflected. A perfect learning cycle.

Today, I made the first such trial, and went through the derivation of the Langmuir adsorption isotherm (single-site adsorption) with the lightboard system that has been built at Aalto Studios. Here, we are following the Nothwestern University model. Scientific articles have been written on the technique, e.g., Journal of Chemical Education 2017 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jchemed.7b00004.

The result is openly shared through the Panopto platform, screen capture below and link here: https://aalto.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=2d56ca40-7ab8-401e-80e9-a9d100a13c1d. The video is also available in Youtube. This was my first trial and I am happy with the outcome, even though not everything went quite as planned.. watch yourself to know what I mean :). (It was all captured in just one recording, without too much planning, and a bit of roughness is fine in the video, I think.) Warmest thanks to Aalto Studios and Kalle Kataila for making this possible and for providing the video extremely fast. Description of the video, which is included in the Panopto recording, is copied below.

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Season’s Greetings from Aalto Catalysis research group

17.12.2018

Dear colleagues, collaborators, emeriti, potential future colleagues and collaborators, others,

Year 2018 approaches its end, and it is a good time to look back on the activities of our group in 2018.

Publication-wise, the Aalto Catalysis research group has had a good year. In total ten publications from the current group members and related earlier research at Aalto are out, listed at the end of this email. At the moment of writing this, five articles are “in the pipeline”, to be published in 2019 after peer review is finished (one of them shared in ChemRxiv). The group members have additionally given several contributed/invited/keynote talks and poster presentations at various national and international conferences.

Open Science is a current trend mentioned also in the recent report State of Scientific Research in Finland 2018. Chemical engineering as a field is not considered really open, and surely, our field could benefit from more openness. Contributions of the Catalysis group to Open Science so far have been (i) the participation in and coordination of the Virtual Project on the History of ALD (VPHA, http://vph-ald.com) Open Science effort; (ii) including broader background info in our newest publications, and (iii) sharing manuscript preprints in ChemRxiv and ECSarXiv. Maybe in 2019, we’ll create our first open dataset?  read more >>

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STG podcasts as source of information on Atomic Layer Deposition

3.12.2018

Aalto CHEM doctoral student Giovanni Marin with colleagues has set up a professional-looking podcast STG Podcasts, where STG refers to “Science, Technology and Gaming”. There are several episodes already where scientists working with Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) have been interviewed. The most recent episode is with Prof Seán Barry recorded on November 27, 2018 (see also the lecture info), and there have been earlier ones of Prof. Christophe Detavernier, Dr. Simon Elliott, Dr. Esko from Picosun, and Prof. Gregory Parsons. I warmly recommend listening to these! You find STG Podcasts for example in Twitter.

Giovanni Marin and Seán Barry in the Aalto selfservice studio, for STG podcast. Photo: Riikka Puurunen 2018.

 

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Feedback from the 3rd Young Scientist Forum on Catalysis

30.11.2018

The feedback questionnaire related to FYSFC2018 event by the Finnish Catalysis Society, shared in Katse 1/2018 (link) with the goal to develop the event further for next year, received fifteen responses. Warmest thanks for everyone who responded! Summary of the feedback is shown below and to be shared in Katse 2/2018.

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Visiting lecture Prof Seán Barry, Precursors and Atomic Layer Deposition of Gold Metal, Nov 27

23.11.2018

The lecture will be on Tuesday, November 27, 2018, in lecture hall Ke 2 (Chemistry building, Kemistintie 1), at 10:00-11:00. Welcome!

Prof Barry has been working with CVD and ALD reactant synthesis for well over a decade, and has been visiting labs such as Harvard University (Prof Roy Gordon) and University of Helsinki (Professors Leskelä and Mikko Ritala). Laboratory website link: https://carleton.ca/barrylab/

Title: “Precursors and Atomic Layer Deposition of Gold Metal”  read more >>

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