A Macintosh-Based Analog/Digital Data Acquisition System for a Four-Station Biology Laboratory

9451037 Ybarrondo Adams州立学院位于科罗拉多州南部的圣路易斯山谷，主要服务于少数民族（即西班牙裔）人口较多的农村地区。由于ASC的地理位置偏僻，生物系提供的教育机会主要局限于那些能够容纳有限的校园设施和设备的学校。虽然ASC在野外和环境生物学方面的课程传统上很强大，但现代“实验”生物学的本科生经验受到缺乏必要仪器的限制。在受本文建议的设备影响的高级实验课程中尤其如此，包括：比较动物生理学、细胞生物学/遗传学实验室、免疫学和分子生物学，目前许多程序/实验方法只能描述，“实践”经验不足或完全缺乏。本提案中所要求的仪器将极大地提高生物系的能力，为ASC生物专业的高级实验课程提供广泛的复杂、现代的实验室体验。因此，在预计的十年期间，每年约有125名学生的教育经历将受到直接影响（许多其他学生受到间接影响），使他们能够成功地竞争研究生和专业学校的职位，以及从亚当斯州立学院毕业后的专业生物技术职业，以及加强地区公立学校的科学教育。具体来说，基于Macintosh/ maclabtm的模拟/数字数据采集系统是一种最先进的设备，可以轻松完成从各种现代输入设备收集的数据的复杂分析。该系统可以轻松地对所获得的真实数据进行复杂的分析，这将允许在教学实验室中采用探究方法，并使本科生能够进行研究。

9451037 Ybarrondo Adams State College is located in the San Luis Valley of southern Colorado and serves a primarily rural area with a high minority (i.e., Hispanic) population. Because of the isolated location of ASC, the educational opportunities offered by the Department of Biology are primarily restricted to those which can be accommodated with limited on-campus facilities and equipment. While a program in field and environmental biology has traditionally been strong at ASC, undergraduate experiences in modern "bench" biology have been constrained by a lack of essential instrumentation. This is particularly true in upper division laboratory courses to be impacted by the equipment proposed herein, including: Comparative Animal Physiology, Cell Biology/Genetics Laboratory, Immunology, and Molecular Biology where currently many procedures/experimental approaches can only be described and "hands-on" experience is inadequate or lacking altogether. The instrumentation requested in this proposal will be enormously productive in terms of enhancing the ability of the Department of Biology to provide a wide range of sophisticated, contemporary laboratory experiences to ASC Biology majors in our advanced laboratory courses. As a result, the educational experience of ca. 125 students per year for a projected period of ten years will be impacted directly (with many other students being impacted indirectly), allowing them to compete successfully for positions in graduate and professional schools and for professional biotechnical careers following graduation from Adams State College, as well as enhancing science education in area public schools. Specifically, the Macintosh/MacLabTM-based analog/digital data acquisition system is a state-of-the-art apparatus that permits complex analyses of data collected from an extremely wide range of modern input devices to be easily accomplished. The ease with which complex analyses o f real data acquired by this system may be undertaken will allow an inquiry approach in the teaching laboratory as well as enabling undergraduate student research.