Increasing Curricula Content Through "Lecture-Laboratory" Experiments

通过“讲座-实验室”实验增加课程内容

• 批准号: 9651412
• 负责人: William Thomson
• 金额: $ 2.79万
• 依托单位: Washington State 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: 1996-07-01 至 1998-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9651412&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Increasing; Curricula; Content; Through; Lecture

This project answers the question, How can additional material be added to the undergraduate curricula without the addition or subtraction of courses? The thesis is that the inclusion of lecture-laboratories is one way of accomplishing this goal. To evaluate this thesis, the project teaches catalysis at more than a cursory degree at the undergraduate level by including a related set of laboratory-based homework assignments as part of the senior-level chemical engineering kinetics course. However, for this goal to be achieved, it is absolutely necessary that the laboratory apparatus be user-friendly, have the capability of demonstrating the important concepts in catalysis, and be compatible with short, focused assignments. All of these attributes are features of the compact, flexible apparatus being used here. Not only can students be exposed to basic catalysis background in the lecture-laboratories, but the equipment is also totally compatible with the open-ended 6- to 8-week laboratory assignments that characterize the Unit Operations Laboratory course. This project serves as a potential model for addressing similar problems in other engineering disciplines. Finally, it should be pointed out that this particular project is totally compatible with the recent commitment on the part of the Chemical Engineering Department to totally rethink and refurbish its undergraduate laboratories.

这个项目回答了这样一个问题，如何在不增加或减少课程的情况下，在本科课程中增加额外的材料？论文认为，纳入讲授实验室是实现这一目标的一种方式。为了评估这篇论文，该项目通过将一套相关的基于实验室的家庭作业作为高级化学工程动力学课程的一部分，在本科生水平上教授催化。然而，为了实现这一目标，实验室设备的用户友好，具有演示催化中的重要概念的能力，并与简短的、专注的作业相兼容是绝对必要的。所有这些属性都是这里使用的紧凑、灵活的设备的特点。学生不仅可以在讲授实验室接触到基本的催化背景，而且设备也完全符合单元操作实验室课程的特点，即不限成员名额的6至8周的实验室作业。该项目可作为解决其他工程学科中类似问题的潜在模式。最后，应该指出的是，这一项目完全符合化学工程系最近作出的彻底重新考虑和翻新其本科生实验室的承诺。