Improving the Undergraduate Analytical and Organic Chemistry Curricula by Incorporation of FTIR Spectroscopy

通过纳入 FTIR 光谱学改进本科分析和有机化学课程

• 批准号: 9650923
• 负责人: Brian Buffin
• 金额: $ 1.7万
• 依托单位: University of Detroit Mercy
• 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: 1996-08-01 至 1998-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9650923&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Improving; Undergraduate; Analytical; Organic; Chemistry

The Department of Chemistry is committed to providing undergraduate students with relevant, state-of-the-art laboratory instruction. The department is currently in the process of reforming the laboratory curricula through the introduction of new experiments and by extending `real world` applications of modern instrumentation into both upper- and lower-level undergraduate courses. The project involves the acquisition of a Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometer and the integration of its quantitative applications into the Analytical and Organic Chemistry curricula, as well as undergraduate research projects. This integration includes the general quantitative analysis laboratory typically taken during the second semester of the first year. It is believed that the changes, facilitated by acquisition of the FTIR spectrometer, are increasing both the quality and scope of instruction in the laboratory courses and are attracting more students to the study of science, particularly women and under-represented minority groups. Program implementation gives all of the laboratory students hands-on experience with modern instrumentation and provides chemistry majors with skills that will enable them to pursue careers in science successfully.

化学系致力于为本科生提供相关的、最先进的实验教学。该系目前正在改革实验室课程，引进新的实验，并将现代仪器的“真实世界”应用推广到高级和低级本科课程。该项目涉及购买傅里叶变换红外光谱仪，并将其定量应用纳入分析和有机化学课程，以及本科生研究项目。这种整合包括一般的定量分析实验室，通常在第一年的第二学期进行。人们认为，在购买FTIR光谱仪的推动下，这些变化正在提高实验室课程的教学质量和范围，并吸引更多的学生学习科学，特别是妇女和代表性不足的少数群体。该计划的实施为所有实验室学生提供了现代仪器的实践经验，并为化学专业的学生提供了使他们能够成功地从事科学事业的技能。