Committee on Computing in Chemical Education

Get Involved. 

The Committee on Computers in Chemical Education (CCCE) is recruiting division members interested in participating in the following programs and activities. Please contact the listed point people directly via e-mail if you are interested:

• Planning a symposium on Using AI in Chem Ed.  Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are widely used in chemistry.  This session provides a forum for those interested in the use of AI tools, including generative AI or ML, for training the next generation of chemists.  The goal is to bring together academic and industry partners interested in how AI and/or ML tools are or can be used for educating and training students at the undergraduate and graduate levels. If interested in contributing contact Bonnie Hall <bhall10@calpoly.edu>.
• Offering at your institution or being involved in the development of an Online Chemistry Course (OLCC) tentatively titled “Data Chemistry and Machine Learning”. This course is meant to allow the teaching of material outside the expertise of the faculty at an institution, while helping them to develop some expertise in the area. The target for the first offering is Fall 2025. Materials used for an OLCC in 2019 may be found at: https://chem.libretexts.org/Courses/Intercollegiate_Courses/Cheminformatics. For more information or to get involved please contact Bob Belford<rebelford@ualr.edu>.
• Hosting an asynchronous online discussion of a thematic group of draft (preprint) chemical education related publications, with the goal of using the discussions to help shepherd the works to final publication. This is essentially an asynchronous online conference. Our goal is to develop an updated version of the CCCE’s ConfChems (https://confchem.ccce.divched.org/confchem_archive), most likely hosted on a modern preprint server (e.g. ChemXriv.org). For more information or to get involved please contact Bob Belford <rebelford@ualr.edu>.
• Helping to develop and offer short courses (probably online) to help chemical educators become familiar with computing tools/skills useful to chemists. For more information please contact Bonnie Hall <bhall10@calpoly.edu>.