Microcomputer Laboratory for Undergraduate Teaching in Biology

生物学本科教学微机实验室

• 批准号: 9051935
• 负责人: Lawrence Abele
• 金额: $ 4.59万
• 依托单位: Florida State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1990
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1990-09-01 至 1992-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9051935&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Microcomputer; Laboratory; Undergraduate; Teaching; Biology

This award provides funds to the Department of Biological Sciences at Florida State University to help purchase equipment for the establishment of a computer laboratory which will teach undergraduates quantitative analyses and computer literacy skills. The integration of quantitative exercises using these computers in undergraduate courses is a major goal of this project. Three preliminary computer exercises have been developed that integrate quantitative analyses with biological phenomena. These exercises focus on the global problem of biodiversity and then use the quantitative skills from that exercise to examine problems in relative growth and the size and shape of animals. These exercises will be expanded and additional exercises will be developed. The new laboratory will serve more than 1000 undergraduate biology majors as well as the more than 100 students in the new interdisciplinary major in Secondary/Science/Mathematics teaching. Faculty in the department believe that computers should be a tool used for the acquisition of basic knowledge in undergraduate biology in the same way that they are used to acquire new knowledge in research. The new laboratory and exercises will move toward this goal. The department will provide complete maintenance thorough its two electrical engineers, and supervision and installation will be provided by a full-time computer specialist assigned to this laboratory. The grantee is matching this award with non-Federal sources.

该奖项为生物科学系提供资金 在佛罗里达州立大学，以帮助购买设备， 建立计算机实验室， 本科生定量分析和计算机读写能力。 使用这些计算机的定量练习的整合， 本科课程是这个项目的主要目标。 三 已经开发了初步的计算机练习， 生物现象的定量分析。 这些练习 关注全球生物多样性问题， 从这个练习中获得的定量技能， 相对生长和动物的大小和形状。 这些练习 并将制定更多的演习。 的 新实验室将为1000多名本科生物学 专业以及100多名学生在新的 中学/科学/数学教学的跨学科专业。 系里的教员认为计算机应该是一种工具 用于本科生基础知识的获取 就像它们被用来获取新知识一样 在研究中。 新的实验室和演习将朝着 这个目标 该部门将提供全面的维护 通过其两个电气工程师，和监督， 安装工作将由一名全职计算机专家提供 分配到这个实验室。 受赠人正在匹配此奖项 非联邦来源。