Microcomputer Based Laboratory Workshop

来自该国西南地区的30名本科物理教员正在接受将微型计算机应用于本科物理实验室的密集训练。该研讨会由该大学的专家主持，该大学有一个广泛的计划，通过为实验室配备微型计算机来使其现代化，以简化数据收集并允许对更先进的现象进行研究。参与者是从该地区的两年制和四年制大学中挑选出来的，优先考虑那些招收大量西班牙裔和美洲原住民学生的大学。在一周的时间里，参与者们聆听专家们讨论和演示了提高物理实验室质量的设备和实验。下午，参加者在同一位专家的指导下使用讨论过的设备。讲习班正在向本科教员介绍以微型计算机为基础的实验室的概念和使这一创新成为可能的数据处理概念。他们对设备的操作越来越熟悉，预计他们和他们的学生将为将微型计算机应用于物理研究做好更好的准备。

Thirty undergraduate physics faculty from the southwestern section of the country are receiving intensive training in the application of microcomputers to undergraduate physics laboratories. The workshop is being conducted by experts from the university, which has an extensive program to modernize their laboratories by equipping them with microcomputers to simplify the collection of data and permit more advanced phenomena to be investigated. The participants are being selected from two and four-year colleges from the region with preference given to those from institutions servicing significant numbers of Hispanic and native American students. During the week the participants are listening to experts discuss and demonstrate equipment and experiments which have improved the quality of physics laboratories. In the afternoons, the participants are using the equipment discussed under the direction of the same experts. The workshop is introducing the undergraduate faculty to the concept of microcomputer based laboratories and to the data processing concepts that make this innovation possible. They are becoming familiar with the operation of the equipment and it is expected that they and their students are becoming better prepared to apply microcomputers to the study of physics.