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.

该项目回答了这个问题，如何在不增加课程的情况下将其他材料添加到本科课程中？论点是，包括讲座的劳动者是实现这一目标的一种方式。为了评估这一论文，该项目通过在本科层面教授一套相关的基于实验室的家庭作业作为高级化学化学工程动力学课程的一部分，从而在本科层面教授了催化。 但是，为了实现这一目标，实验室设备具有用户友好，具有证明催化中的重要概念，并且与简短的专注任务兼容。所有这些属性都是此处使用的紧凑型灵活设备的功能。学生不仅可以在讲座劳动者中接触基本的催化背景，而且设备还与单位运营实验室课程的开放式6至8周的实验室任务完全兼容。 该项目是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，这个特定的项目与化学工程部门最近的承诺完全兼容，即完全重新考虑和翻新其本科实验室。