Instrumentation for Undergraduate Biology and Biotechnology Training

本科生物学和生物技术培训仪器

• 批准号: 9650005
• 负责人: WILLIAM THIEMAN
• 金额: $ 2.5万
• 依托单位: Ventura County Community College District System Office
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-09-01 至 1998-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9650005&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Instrumentation; Undergraduate; Biology; Biotechnology; Training

The project is designed to increase the learning, retention, and lab skills of students in biology and biotechnology programs. This is being achieved through major revisions and changes in the lab experiences of students who enroll in biology labs and completion of the biotechnology specialization program, permitting many hands-on explorations into molecular biology in the laboratory. This project involves a 2-year college, a 4-year university, and a biotech industry, through a consortium effort to identify and teach appropriate lab exercises that give students hands-on experience with the problem-solving methods used in biotechnology. These exercises are initially being integrated into the biotechnology lab course and the biology majors lab course. The biotechnology lab is part of a tech prep program linked to local high schools and to a transfer program. In addition, the equipment can be integrated into a training course for high school science teachers. The individuals primarily affected are biology majors and those preparing for careers in biotechnology, research, medicine, and teaching. The new equipment is fundamental to the training of the 35,000 to 100,000 biotechnicians and scientists who will be needed in the next decade. This instrumentation funding provides students with a comprehensive biotechnology lab program; improved instrumentation in majors and nonmajors biology lab courses; increased hands-on learning in a collaborative-learning atmosphere; state-of-the-art training (for teachers) in biotechnology lab skills; and expanded independent student research opportunities.

该项目旨在提高学生在生物学和生物技术课程中的学习、记忆和实验技能。这是通过对报名参加生物实验室和完成生物技术专业课程的学生的实验室经验进行重大修订和改变来实现的，允许在实验室中对分子生物学进行许多实践探索。该项目涉及一所两年制的学院、一所四年制的大学和一个生物技术行业，通过一个联盟的努力，确定并教授适当的实验室练习，让学生亲身体验生物技术中使用的解决问题的方法。这些练习最初被整合到生物技术实验课和生物专业实验课中。生物技术实验室是与当地高中和转学项目相关的技术预备项目的一部分。此外，该设备还可以整合到高中科学教师的培训课程中。受影响的主要是生物学专业的学生，以及准备从事生物技术、研究、医学和教学工作的学生。这些新设备对于培训未来10年所需的3.5万至10万名生物技术人员和科学家至关重要。该仪器资助为学生提供全面的生物技术实验室计划；改进了专业和非专业生物实验课程的仪器设置；在合作学习的氛围中增加动手学习；最先进的生物技术实验室技能培训（针对教师）；扩大了学生独立研究的机会。