Computer Instructions in the Biological Sciences

该奖项将提供资金，为纽瓦克罗格斯大学生物科学系的本科实验室提供计算机支持。所要求的仪器包括一台DEC MicroVAX计算机系统和一批可独立使用或作为连接到MicroVAX系统的非智能终端使用的教学个人计算机。该计算机系统及其软件将对各级教学的专业或非专业学生有用。在生物学入门一级，个人计算机将主要用作教师/导师，利用现有的模拟和建模软件。在中间级别，PC将在PC模式下用作演示器/导师，并在终端模式下用于处理和分析在实验室会议期间收集的数据，并与MicroVAX相连接。最后，将在生物学专业的生物技术专业中广泛使用MicroVAX系统。所要求的RS/1科学软件包将使人们能够从原始数据一直到转换后数据的最终图形表示。智能遗传学软件包将专门用于分子生物学，并将为学生提供这一重要生物技术领域亟需的培训。该大学投入了大量的人力和财力，在罗格斯-纽瓦克大学提供最先进的生物科学和生物技术教育，该计划正在由非常有能力的研究人员和教育工作者实施。接受资助的机构正在将这一NSF奖项与非联邦来源的资金相匹配。

This award will provide funds to contribute computer support to the undergraduate laboratories of the Department of Biological Sciences at Rutgers University, Newark. The instrumentation requested includes a DEC MicroVAX computer system and a complement of instructional personal computers to be used independently or as dumb terminals linked to the microVAX system. The computer system with its complement of software will be useful to majors or non-majors at all levels of instruction. At the introductory biology level, the personal computers will be used primarily as instructor/tutors taking advantage of the simulation and modeling software presently available. At the intermediate level, the PCs will be used both as demonstrator/tutors in the PC mode and for treatment and analysis of data gathered during laboratory sessions in the terminal mode, linked to the microVAX. Finally, extensive use of the microVAX system will be made in the biotechnology specialization of the Biology major. The RS/1 scientific software package requested will allow one to go from raw data all the way through a finalized graphical representation of the transformed data. The Intelligenetics software package will be used exclusively for molecular biology and will provide students with much needed training in this important biotechnology area. The University has committed substantial personnel and financial resources to provide a state-of-the-are biological sciences and biotechnology education at Rutgers-Newark, and the program is being implemented by highly competent researchers and educators. The grantee institution is matching this NSF award with funds from non- Federal sources.