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

9451037伊巴龙多·亚当斯州立学院位于科罗拉多州南部的圣路易斯山谷，主要服务于少数族裔(即西班牙裔)人口较多的农村地区。由于亚利桑那州立大学地处偏远，生物系提供的教育机会主要局限于那些能够利用有限的校园设施和设备来容纳的人。虽然田野和环境生物学的课程在ASC传统上一直很强大，但本科生在现代“板凳”生物学方面的经验一直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室课程中，情况尤其如此，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，这些课程目前只能描述许多程序/实验方法，而“动手”经验不足或完全缺乏。这份建议书中所要求的仪器将极大地提高生物系在高级实验室课程中为ASC生物学专业学生提供各种复杂的、当代的实验室体验的能力。因此，预计十年内每年约有125名学生的教育经历将受到直接影响(间接影响其他许多学生)，使他们能够在从亚当斯州立学院毕业后成功地竞争研究生院和专业学校的职位，争取专业的生物技术职业，并加强地区公立学校的科学教育。具体地说，基于Macintosh/MacLabTM的模拟/数字数据采集系统是一种最先进的设备，可以轻松完成对从非常广泛的现代输入设备收集的数据进行复杂分析。通过这个系统获取的真实数据的复杂分析可以很容易地进行，这将允许在教学实验室中采用探究式方法，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.