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Guidelines for Written Lab Report Each student is required to submit one full lab report. To further enhance your prospect of getting a good grade, each student should meet with the professor to preview the draft of his or her lab report (do not email your rough draft to the professor and expect to receive comments via email). Below you will find the recommended overall structure of the lab report. Please remember that all figures, plots and tables should be numbered and have captions. You must include sample calculations (and if appropriate, these can be put in the appendix). Title Page - Title should concisely state what is reported in this report - Author name - Team member names - Date - Affiliation (i.e., Chemical Engineering Department, CSULB) Abstract - General but relevant statement about the topic reported on - Brief summary of the report (not necessarily the same as a summary of the experiment that was conducted) - Brief description of the apparatus/experimental methods/data analysis - Key results & brief discussion I. Introduction

a. Background b. Industrial relevance of this lab c. Method of data analysis (theory and equations) d. Brief description of experiment e. List of objectives

II. Experimental

a. Description of experimental apparatus showing schematic diagram and pictures (include figure numbers and captions)

b. Materials or chemicals that were used c. Brief procedure for running the experiment

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III. Results & Discussion

a. Provide figure captions for plots and tables b. All data must be shown with units, and the appropriate number of

significant digits c. All plots must be properly labeled (axes, legends, etc) d. Tables should be concise e. Describe and interpret the data f. Discuss the important trends or findings from the data g. Provide explanation for data that is far from the expected h. Do NOT present raw data in this section (put this in appendix)

IV. Summary and Conclusions

a. Summary of what was done in this experiment (were the objectives listed in Introduction met?)

b. Brief discussion of key findings c. Conclusion, if any, should be based on your actual experimental

findings

V. Recommendations a. Recommendations should be based on your findings b. Be specific c. Your input will be used to improve this lab for future students

Nomenclature - list all variables and symbols used and provide definitions References (literature cited) - cite any source of information that was in your report - for textbooks use this format: McCabe, W. L.; Smith, J. C. and Harriott, P., Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering, 2005, 7th edition, McGraw Hill, pp. 48-50. Appendix - sample calculations (can be hand written) - long derivations (can be hand written) - raw data (optional)