Enhancing Chemistry and Biochemistry Education with Gas Chromatography - Mass Spectrometry

利用气相色谱-质谱法加强化学和生物化学教育

• 批准号: 9650250
• 负责人: John Ganchoff
• 金额: $ 2.26万
• 依托单位: Elmhurst University
• 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=9650250&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Enhancing; Chemistry; Biochemistry; Education; Gas

The project involves acquisition of a gas chromatography-mass spectrometer (GC-MS) to provide all students hands-on experience with a central instrument used in industrial and graduate school research laboratories. It also involves development of instruction and courseware to engage students in problem solving and methods development. The project is allowing students to investigate familiar materials, such as perfumes, and be exposed to some of the strategies of analysis and mass spectral interpretation. Upper-level students are also solving problems and developing new methods of analysis. For example, in the Instrumental Analysis course, students are handling real-world samples in complex matrices as they develop methods for analysis of mycotoxins in rice and corn. In biology courses, students are characterizing small protein molecules that have been implicated in mechanisms of resistance of plants to pathogens. The project is preparing undergraduates to enter the modern-day instrumental laboratory competently and confidently and heightening student enthusiasm and interest in chemistry.

该项目涉及购买一台气相色谱-质谱仪 (GC-MS)，为所有学生提供工业和研究生院研究实验室使用的中央仪器的实践经验。它还涉及教学和课件的开发，以吸引学生解决问题和开发方法。 该项目允许学生研究熟悉的材料，例如香水，并接触一些分析和质谱解释的策略。高年级学生也在解决问题并开发新的分析方法。例如，在仪器分析课程中，学生在开发分析大米和玉米中霉菌毒素的方法时，会处理复杂基质中的真实样品。在生物学课程中，学生们正在表征与植物抵抗病原体的机制有关的小蛋白质分子。 该项目旨在帮助本科生自信、称职地进入现代仪器实验室，提高学生对化学的热情和兴趣。