Dr. William M. Davis

 TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I am responsible for the Physical Chemistry courses here at the University of Texas at Brownsville.  This includes two semesters of lecture and laboratories.  As well, I teach the General Chemistry I and II lectures and laboratories for freshmen.

I have five years experience teaching in undergraduate physical chemistry laboratories at the University of Guelph.  I have taught labs for 19-104 Fundamental Chemistry I, 19-105 Fundamental Chemistry II, 19-130 Environmental Chemistry I, 19-131 Environmental Chemistry II, 19-230 Kinetics and Mechanism, and 19-179 Organic Chemistry I.  The main duties for the laboratories involved supervising the students in their work, demonstrating proper lab techniques, answering questions and running tutorial sessions.  As well, it was also required to mark the laboratory reports and examinations.  Finally, I helped implement a new lab design for 19-105, including designing new experiments and modifying existing experiments to fit into the curriculum.

I taught the summer session of Chemistry 1010, the first year general chemistry course at York University.  This appointment involved preparation of lecture material and examination as well as teaching the classes.  The general concepts covered include acids and bases, basic kinetics and thermodynamics, atomic theory, VSEPR theory and the more general concepts of stoichiometry.  The course outline is available upon request.

I taught the lecture and laboratory sections of Chemistry 323.2, a third year inorganic chemistry course at St. Mary's University, in the winter semster of 1998.  This course covered the spectroscopy of inorganic compounds, organometallic chemistry, and catalysis.  The course outline is available upon request.