Adaptation and Adoption of Novel Applications of Optical Science and Engineering

光学科学与工程(OPSE)被认为是一种使能技术：一种可应用于许多科学学科并有可能对这些学科作出重大贡献的技术。在这个项目中，德克萨斯A&A&M的四个生物光学实验室模块被采用，并被NJIT现有的OPSE课程所采用。将这些实验模块改编/应用到各种课程中，证明了生物光学的能力。由S.Rastegar和G.Cote(Biomedical Engineering)根据他们自己的CRCD计划开发的四个实验室模块分别是模拟激光手术、手性物质的偏振量化、组织光学性质的测量、生理荧光团的荧光光谱。这些实验单元被改编并应用于高年级本科(OPSE I和II，物理化学)和低年级课程(现代物理实验室和新生工程)。总体而言，挑战是将这些实验室模块调整和实施到一个主要面向工程和科学的课程中，而生物科学中的存在很少。特别是，荧光光谱实验室模块经过修改，可以在不使用活动物的情况下模拟生物细胞的运输。极化实验室模块取代了现有的NJIT极化旋转模块。为了使这个实验室适应NJIT，学生们测量了由于D-葡萄糖等手性物质而产生的光的旋转度。在组织光学特性实验室适应NJIT的过程中，该模块分为两个部分：模拟组织样本组件(吸收染料和散射球)，适用于大一至初级课程；生物样本组件(牛肉、肝脏、鸡胸肉)，适用于高级课程。

Optical Science and Engineering (OPSE) is recognized as an enabling technology: a technology with applications to many scientific disciplines and with the potential to contribute in significant ways to those disciplines. In this project, four of Texas A&M's bio-optics laboratory modules are adopted and adapted into NJIT's existing OPSE curriculum. Adaptation/ Implementation of these laboratory modules into various courses demonstrates the enabling capabilities of bio-optics. The four laboratory modules, which were developed by S. Rastegar and G. Cote (Biomedical Engineering) under their own CRCD program, are Simulated Laser surgery, Polarimetric Quantification of Chiral Substances, Measurement of Tissue Optical Properties, Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Physiological Fluorophores. These laboratory modules are adapted and implemented into the upper division undergraduate level (OPSE I and II, Physical Chemistry) and the lower division level courses (Modern Physics Laboratory and Freshman Engineering). In general, the challenge is to adapt and Implement these laboratory modules into a curriculum which is predominantly engineering and science oriented with very little presence in biological sciences. In particular, the Fluorescence Spectroscopy laboratory module is modified to simulate biological cellular transport without the use of live animals. The polarimetric laboratory module replaces an existing NJIT module on polarization rotation. In adapting this lab to NJIT, the students measure the degree of light rotation due to chiral substances such as D-Glucose. In adapting the Tissue Optical Properties laboratory to NJIT, the module is divided into two components: a simulated tissue samples component (absorbing dye and scattering spheres) which is adapted to freshman through junior level and a biological samples component (beef, liver, chicken breast) which is adapted to senior level courses.