Food Analysis Lab (11:400:305)
Credit: 1
Prerequisite: Food Analysis 11:400:304
Time & Place:
Office Hours:
For appointments: call/email
Instructor:
Qingrong Huang, Ph. D.
qhuang@sebs.rutgers.edu
65 Dudley RD, Room 221C
(848) 932-5514
(732) 932-6776
Class schedule: https://sis.rutgers.edu/soc/#home.
COURSE WEBSITE, RESOURCES & MATERIALS
All of the materials that you will need for this course will be posted in the class Canvas website https://tlt.rutgers.edu/canvas.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Food analysis laboratory complements the lecture course and gives students experiences in performing food analysis experiments, analyzing data, and reporting their findings. Identification and critical assessment of the most appropriate and applicable analytical methods for analyzing the properties of a particular food product will be emphasized.
LEARNING GOALS:
This course fulfills Food Science Program Learning Goal #2: Graduates will demonstrate and apply knowledge of the core competencies in Food Chemistry and analysis.
Course Objective
At the end of the course, students will:
- understand the concepts and mechanisms of instrumentation and experimental techniques related to food analysis
- acquire laboratory skills required for performing a range of chemical and physicochemical analyses of food components.
ASSIGNMENTS/RESPONSIBILITIES, GRADING & ASSESSMENT
Course Etiquette
Participation is required for participation points, failure to participate in discussion will result in a zero. This course requires participation in class activities, discussions, and through questions. A strict late policy is followed in this class, lateness is regarded as absence. If you miss a class, you are responsible for catching up in time for assignments. classes can only be excused through university approved absences. All assignments are expected to be submitted before the due date. Failure to submit an assignment before the deadline without a university approved absence will result in a zero on the assignment. No disturbances will be tolerated in class, this includes engaging in disruptive behavior and inappropriate cell phone or laptop use that is not related to the course. We strive to create a positive classroom climate to facilitate all students to be able to learn.
Lab Grading:
Lab Reports: Guidelines for food analysis lab reports
- Lab reports need to be typed: Use Times New Roman, 12pt font, 1" margins all around, and double-spaced. Maximum page limit: 5 pages (include graphs and reference)
- Students must write lab reports independently: Lab partners are encouraged to discuss the material, but the write-up of lab reports must be independent.
- Please follow the format outlined below:
- Title, student name, section number
- Introduction (1 pts): In this section, background information and purpose of the lab are discussed. In this class, a specific instrument or experimental technique will be introduced in each lab. The working mechanism or the significance of this technique in food or other applications can be discussed.
- Materials and Procedures (2 pts): Materials used in the lab include chemicals and equipment. The steps need to be written in past and passive tense.
- Results (2 pts): Tables and figures should be organized. The data, if provided, needs titles, labels, units, legends, and may need some brief description (Write out your results in words).
- Discussion (2 pts): There are questions assigned by the end of each lab manual. Each question can be answered in separate paragraph. Additional information related to the lab experiment can also be discussed. This includes discussing what your results mean and their significance.
- Conclusion (1 pt): This section is a brief summary about the experiment
- Citation (0 pts): References are from peer-reviewed scientific journals and written in proper format (APA). In-text citations are needed. If citations are not provided, zero points will be given for the report.
- Due date: The lab reports are due a week after the lab had been conducted.
- Submission: Lab reports (Word file) should be submitted online. Reports will be graded based on when they were uploaded to Canvas.
- Late submission: Please do submit your lab reports on time. Late lab reports will be graded for 4 points. The lab report will not be accepted longer than three days after the due date. If you have any questions or concerns, please email Dr. Huang.
CLASS SCHEDULE
Laboratory Schedule of Topics
Final Exam/Paper data and Time: Online Final Exam Schedule.
ACCOMODATIONS FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES
Please follow the procedures outlined at Rutgers Office Of Disability services Registration form. Full policies and procedures are found in the Rutgers Office Of Disability services website.
The Rutgers Office Of Disability services is located at Lucy Stone Hall, Suite A145, Livingston Campus, 54 Joyce Kilmer Avenue, Piscataway, NJ 08854. The contact phone number is (848) 445-6800.
Rutgers University welcomes students with disabilities into all of the University's educational programs. In order to receive consideration for reasonable accommodations, a student with a disability must contact the appropriate disability services office at the campus where you are officially enrolled, participate in an intake interview, and provide documentation at Rutgers Office Of Disability services documentation Guidelines website. If the documentation supports your request for reasonable accommodations, your campus’s disability services office will provide you with a Letter of Accommodations. Please share this letter with your instructors and discuss the accommodations with them as early in your courses as possible. To begin this process, please complete the Registration form on the ODS web site at: Rutgers Office Of Disability services Registration form.
Absence Policy
The University does recognize that temporary conditions and injuries can be problematic and may adversely affect a student’s ability to fully participate in class.
Absences or making up work go to Temporary Conditions website for detail.
The Dean of Students Office at Rutgers University-New Brunswick provides solutions, services, and support to help students navigate Rutgers University. By focusing on students’ educational, social, and personal development, staff in the Office promote academic success and student retention. The Office serves as a student support network by providing advocacy, problem resolution, and critical incident intervention for those times when additional assistance is needed.
- Self-Reporting Absences: For absences in class or labs less than a week that are not confidential in nature, students need to inform faculty directly by using the Absence Reporting System (ARS).
- Longer Periods of Absence: If you anticipate missing more than one week of classes for serious illness, confidential, or sensitive personal reasons, you should also consult with a New Brunswick Dean of Students who will help to verify your extended absences from classes.
- Absences due to illnesses: If your absence is due to illness, visit New Brunswick Health Services for information about campus health services, including information about: how to make an appointment, self-care advice for colds/flu, mental health and counseling options.
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
The university's policy on Academic Integrity requires that a student:
- properly acknowledge and cite all use of the ideas, results, or words of others.
- properly acknowledge all contributors to a given piece of work.
- make sure that all work submitted as his or her own in a course or other academic activity is produced without the aid of impermissible materials or impermissible collaboration.
- obtain all data or results by ethical means and report them accurately without suppressing any results inconsistent with his or her interpretation or conclusions.
- treat all other students in an ethical manner, respecting their integrity and right to pursue their educational goals without interference. This requires that a student neither facilitate academic dishonesty by others nor obstruct their academic progress.
- uphold the canons of the ethical or professional code of the profession for which he or she is preparing.
Adherence to these principles is necessary in order to ensure that
- everyone is given proper credit for his or her ideas, words, results, and other scholarly accomplishments.
- all student work is fairly evaluated, and no student has an inappropriate advantage over others.
- the academic and ethical development of all students is fostered.
- the reputation of the University for integrity in its teaching, research, and scholarship is maintained and enhanced.
Failure to uphold these principles of academic integrity threatens both the reputation of the University and the value of the degrees awarded to its students. Every member of the University community therefore bears a responsibility for ensuring that the highest standards of academic integrity are upheld.
Cheating and Plagiarism
(From Spring 2010 Andy Egan 01:730:252 Eating Right): "Cheating on tests or plagiarizing materials in your papers deprives you of the educational benefits of preparing these materials appropriately. It is personally dishonest to cheat on a test or to hand in a paper based on unacknowledged words or ideas that someone else originated. It is also unfair, since it gives you an undeserved advantage over your fellow students who are graded on the basis of their own work. In this class we will take cheating very seriously".
Turnitin will be used to assess students‚ submissions and all suspected cases of cheating and plagiarism will be automatically referred to the Rutgers Academic Integrity office.
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Disability Services
The Office of Disability Services phone number is (848) 445-6800, and it is located at Lucy Stone Hall, Suite A145 Livingston Campus 54 Joyce Kilmer Avenue Piscataway, NJ 08854
Rutgers University welcomes students with disabilities into all of the University's educational programs. In order to receive consideration for reasonable accommodations, a student with a disability must contact the appropriate disability services office at the campus where you are officially enrolled, participate in an intake interview, and provide documentation at Office of Disability Services Documentation Quidelines website. If the documentation supports your request for reasonable accommodations, your campus's disability services office will provide you with a Letter of Accommodations. Please share this letter with your instructors and discuss the accommodations with them as early in your courses as possible. To begin this process, please complete the Registration Form.
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