Analyze, Create and Explore (ACE): Modern Real-World Chemistry in the Undergraduate Curriculum

该项目将使用计算机构建一年级到二年级的新型分析化学课程。它将专注于有毒废物场地中金属离子和有机物质的痕量分析，学生可以通过计算机在现场许多不同的地点进行采样，以获得未经解释的分析数据。学生将使用无毒物质进行实际操作的痕量分析，以发展他们的实验室技能，并了解如何从“现场”获得分析数据。高端图形工作站在包括分析课程在内的低级实验室课程中的应用，也将是该项目的核心内容。这些用途将包括为减少污染设计隔离剂，探索主客体相互作用，以及检查轨道相互作用。

This project will use computers to construct a new type of analytical chemistry course at the freshman-sophomore level. It will focus on trace analysis of metal ions and organic substances in a toxic waste site that can be "sampled" by students to obtain uninterpreted analytical data via computer at many different locations at the site. Students will carry out hands-on trace analyses with non-toxic substances in order to develop their laboratory skills, and to see how the analytical data from the "site" was obtained. Applications of high-end graphics workstations throughout the lower-division laboratory courses, including the analytical course, will also be central to this project. The uses will involve among other things designing sequesterants for pollution abatement, exploring host-guest interactions, and examining orbital interactions.