Equipment for an Advanced Undergraduate Project Laboratory

化学系将购置一台二氧化碳激光器、一台紫外可见光谱仪、一台气相色谱仪/质谱仪和一台图形工作站，供本科生实验室使用。该项目的重点是一个高级选修课，以项目为导向的实验室，遵循麻省理工学院化学专业本科生要求的三学期实验室序列。参加这门课程的学生将从可供选择的选项中集中于一到两个特定的主题；他们将被要求设计自己的实验方案，在开始实验室工作之前准备详细的建议，并以书面报告和口头研讨会的形式展示他们的结果，所有这些都是在教师导师和经验丰富的助教的指导下进行的。计划的项目将吸引广泛的学生兴趣，包括激光光化学和光谱学、蛋白质化学、环境污染物的痕量分析、微型电化学设备和高级计算化学。将为将这些项目的结果传播给其他感兴趣的化学部门做好准备。

The Department of Chemistry will acquire a CO2 laser, a UV-VIS spectrophotometer, a gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer and a graphics workstation for use in the undergraduate laboratories. The focus of the project is an advanced elective, project-oriented laboratory to follow the required three-semester laboratory sequence for undergraduate chemistry majors at MIT. Students enrolled in this course will concentrate on one or two specific topics from a menu of available choices; they will be expected to devise their own experimental protocols, prepare detailed proposals before starting laboratory work, and present their results in the form of written reports and oral seminars, all under the guidance of faculty mentors and experienced teaching assistants. Projects are planned to appeal to a wide variety of student interests, including laser photochemistry and spectroscopy, protein chemistry, trace analysis of environmental contaminants, microelectrochemical devices, and advanced computational chemistry. Provisions will be made for disseminating the results of these projects to other interested chemistry departments.