Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometry: Curriculum Wide Improvements in Undergraduate Chemistry Instruction

为了实施一个教学项目，该项目获得了一台傅里叶变换红外光谱仪和相关的采样配件，该项目“全面”改善了该机构的本科化学教学。本项目包括设计和实施利用FTIR及其数据站的实验，用于高级和低级课程。这项工作从三个方面提高了本科教学的质量，即：(1)作为教授先进仪器概念的工具，如模拟-数字关系和软件数据处理；(2)为学生提供现代计算机化仪器的实践经验，这些仪器通常在学术和工业研究生环境中遇到。(3)通过让低年级学生接触红外分析的“最新技术”，激励他们将化学作为自己的主要研究领域。该机构为该项目提供的资金相当于国家科学基金会的资金。

A Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometer and related sampling accessories were acquired through this project in order to implement an instructional project which has yielded "across the board" improvements in undergraduate chemistry instruction at the institution. This project involved the design and implementation of experiments utilizing the FTIR and its data station for both upper and lower level courses. The work enhanced the quality of undergraduate instruction in three way, namely by (1) serving as a vehicle for teaching advanced instrumental concepts such as analog-digital relations and software data manipulation, (2) providing students hands-on experience with a modern, computerized instrument commonly encountered in academic and industrial postgraduate settings, and (3) motivating underclassmen to purse chemistry as their major field of study by exposing them to the "state of the art" in infrared analysis. The institution contributed to this project in an amount equal to the NSF funds.