Splash Biography
DANIEL SHEN, 3rd year MechaniCAL Engineer
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Major: Mechanical Engineering College/Employer: UC Berkeley Year of Graduation: 2019 |
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Brief Biographical Sketch:
When I'm not dying from coursework, I'm usually making things (whether it be ships in bottles or 3D printed statues), but I also enjoy studying organic chemistry quite a bit (go figure, since I'm teaching an organic chemistry class for Splash). In my free time, I like to hike, do competitive collegiate ballroom dance, and cook! Past Classes(Clicking a class title will bring you to the course's section of the corresponding course catalog)S245: Introduction to Organic Chemistry in Splash Fall 17 (Nov. 04, 2017)
Have you ever wondered what chemical reactions are going on in your body at the rate of trillions of trillions of times each second? Almost all of the chemical reactions that drive life are organic in nature, yet we take for granted that these reactions simply happen.
This organic chemistry class will go over a crash course in what you might learn in undergraduate freshman year organic chemistry course. The idea is to introduce organic chemistry not as reaction memorization (as most people see it), but rather as visual pattern recognition using chemical principles as a guide.
Ideally, students will have taken AP chemistry and can name organic functional groups. This will allow us to move beyond just rote memorization and into the fun part of puzzle solving that is organic synthesis!
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