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2nd Half Semester course. Must take CHE-371-01, 1st half semeter in order to take CHE-371-02 during the 2nd half semester. Building on introductory experience with digital design and fabrication, this course emphasizes the development of custom analytical instrumentation and applied electronics. Students will integrate 3D-printed and laser-cut components with sensors, actuators, and Arduino-based microcontrollers to design, prototype, and refine functional laboratory devices. Coursework will introduce fundamental Arduino programming skills, circuit design, and data acquisition methods, with a focus on adapting instruments for chemical and environmental analysis. Through collaborative projects, students will progress from initial concept to fully functioning prototypes, developing practical skills in iterative design, troubleshooting, and instrument optimization. Enrollment is by instructor permission, as students must complete the first half-semester of CHE-371 in order to participate in this follow-on course.

Second-half semester course. "'All men are mortal. Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates is mortal.' To Ivan Ilyich, such logic seemed true when applied to Socrates, but not to him!" That line, from Tolstoy's great novella Death of Ivan Ilyich, captures a common experience: denying one's own mortality even when one knows that death is inevitable. To respond, the world's religions have, in one way or another, embraced a "memento mori," or a remembrance of death. This class will study attitudes, practices, and rituals that religions have developed in the face of death, focusing on burial. We will study coffins, urns, cremation, funerary rites, mummies, and more. Further, each student will build a coffin in Professor Nelson's furniture shop. The student will be able to keep the coffin, which in some cases can be temporarily transformed into a small table or bookshelf. You will therefore leave this class with your own memento mori... Instructor consent needed.