Computer-Assisted Instrumentation for Improving Biology Laboratory Instruction

Contra Costa College的生物科学系旨在为我们的学生提供计算机化的记录和分析仪器，用于生理学，动物学，植物学，微生物学和普通生物学实验室。 这一工具将扩大和加强我们学生的教育进程，其中许多学生是少数民族和妇女，传统上在科学领域的代表性不足。 这些仪器将为学生提供同时测量多种生物功能（例如心音，脉搏和EKG）的能力，并存储这些数据以进行分析，操作和绘图。 这将使该部门能够停止使用活体动物进行实验，并取代对人类受试者的非侵入性技术。 这将证明更相关和有趣的许多学生，特别是那些在临床前程序。 所要求的仪器取代了传统肌肉实验中使用的非常古老的生理记录仪和传感器，并允许新的实验室进行细胞内膜电位，呼吸（其中体积与速率协调），循环（心音，脉搏，血压和EKG）骨骼肌EMG测量，以及学生运动。 此外，计算机分析和数据绘图将成为该部门所有课程的常规操作。 计算机和硬件/软件将是便携式的，并将在整个部门的实验室课程，服务约1,100名学生每年雇用。 使用这种仪器的实验将在课程实验室手册中发表，并将提供给MacLab手册和教学协会，如人体解剖学和生理学协会（HAPS）。

The Biological Sciences Department at Contra Costa College seeks to provide our students with computerized recording and analyzing instrumentation for use in the laboratories of Physiology, Zoology, Botany, Microbiology, and General Biology. this instrumentation will expand and enhance the educational process for our students, many of whom are minorities and women and are traditionally underrepresented in the sciences. These instruments will provide students with the ability to measure several biological functions (e.g. heart sounds, pulse, and EKG) simultaneously, and to store this data for analysis, manipulation, and graphing. This will enable the department to cease using live animals for experimentation, and substitute non-invasive techniques on human subjects. This will prove more relevant and interesting to many students, especially those in pre-clinical programs. The requested instruments replace very old physiographs and transducers used in traditional muscle experiments and allow new labs on, for example intracellular membrane potentials, respiration (where volumes are coordinated with rate), circulation (heart sounds, pulse, blood pressure, and EKG) EMG measurements on skeletal muscle, and students on locomotion. Additionally, computer analysis and graphing of data will become routine in all of the department's courses. The computers and hardware/software will be portable and will be employed throughout the department's laboratory courses, serving approximately 1,100 students per year. Experiments using this instrumentation will be published in course laboratory manuals and will be provided to the MacLab manual and to teaching societies such as Human Anatomy and Physiology Society (HAPS).