Hi Everybody!

I'd like to ask you for an advice on the idea of a project for undergraduate
students, but first let me tell you just few words about the problem.
I work at a university and the filed of my research is homogeneous catalysis
with some aspects of organometallics - experimental chemistry generally.
Although I often use chemical software for publishing mainly (drawing,
stoichiometric and simple quantum calc., inventory) I have very poor idea
about programming. I also translate the software to my mother tong - Polish,
I gather the chemical software for Linux at Linux4Chemistry
(http://zeus.polsl.gliwice.pl/~nikodem/linux4chemistry.html) but, that
reaches the frontiers of my knowledge on chemical software.
All right, after this background you should better understand my problem:
Next school year I am suppose to be responsible for one last-yeared
undergraduate student, who should be carrying a project (diploma work) from
the filed call here: "Computer science in chemical technology"- perhaps not
only tecnhology. The students are generally chemists, but they should have
some computer science background (some introduction to programming, databases
etc). I was thinking about some chemical inventory or a kind of
review/comparison of chemical publishing software, but still I'd hard for me.
So this is why I'm asking you for help - could you give me some advice what
kind of project I shall offer?
Or maybe anyone of you is interested in cooperating or in having such a
student (via Socrates-Erasmus, IASTE or any other program) in your group for
one or two semesters 2005-2006?

I would very appreciate your kind help.
Thank you very much in advance!

Best regards,

Nikodem Kuznik
Chemistry Dept.
Silesian University of Technology
Gliwice, Poland
Nikodem.Kuznik@...