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.

该项目回答了这样的问题：如何在不增加或减少课程的情况下向本科课程中添加额外的材料？论文认为，纳入讲座实验室是实现这一目标的一种方式。为了评估这篇论文，该项目通过将一组相关的基于实验室的作业作为高级化学工程动力学课程的一部分，在本科阶段教授催化，而不仅仅是粗略的学位。 然而，为了实现这一目标，实验室设备必须用户友好，能够演示催化中的重要概念，并与短期、集中的任务兼容。所有这些属性都是这里使用的紧凑、灵活的装置的特征。学生不仅可以在讲座实验室中接触到基本的催化背景，而且设备也完全兼容单元操作实验室课程所特有的为期 6 至 8 周的开放式实验室作业。 该项目可以作为解决其他工程学科中类似问题的潜在模型。最后，应该指出的是，这个特定项目完全符合化学工程系最近全面重新思考和翻新其本科实验室的承诺。