Modernization and Expansion of the UW-River Falls Optics Curriculum

威斯康星大学河瀑布光学课程的现代化和扩展

• 批准号: 0086995
• 负责人: Lowell McCann
• 金额: $ 9.28万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-River Falls
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-03-01 至 2004-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0086995&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Modernization; Expansion; UW; River; Falls

Physics (13) Modern society is increasingly reliant on technologies developed from the optical sciences. In order to sustain growth in these fields, there is a need for people with technical skills in this area and for professionals with knowledge of basic optical phenomena. To address these societal needs, the goal of this project is to improve the Optics education that students receive throughout the Physics curriculum. To implement this goal, we have established three objectives for this project: 1) Integrate a hands-on laboratory experience including the topics of nonlinear optics, laser design, spectroscopy, and optical communication technology into the Optics course for Physics majors. 2) Develop Optics-based summer coursework for high school teachers as part of the Master of Science in Education program with opportunities for teachers to design their own classroom activities. 3) Create a new liberal arts course called The Science of Light to give non-science majors the opportunity to explore optical phenomena such as vision, liquid crystals, color, and holography. These objectives impact not only university students, but also high school science teachers and their students. Each of these objectives are being met by implementing activities which integrate modern optical technology throughout the Physics curriculum. The project is adapting experiments from the physics research and education literature and adapting more common experiments for use by teachers and their students.

物理学（13）现代社会越来越依赖于从光学科学发展而来的技术。为了维持这些领域的增长，需要在这一领域具有技术技能的人和具有基本光学现象知识的专业人员。为了满足这些社会需求，该项目的目标是改善学生在整个物理课程中接受的光学教育。为了实现这一目标，我们为该项目制定了三个目标：1）将实践实验室经验（包括非线性光学、激光设计、光谱学和光通信技术等主题）整合到物理专业的光学课程中。2)为高中教师开发基于光学的暑期课程，作为教育科学硕士课程的一部分，教师有机会设计自己的课堂活动。3)创建一个新的文科课程称为光的科学，让非科学专业的学生有机会探索光学现象，如视觉，液晶，颜色和全息。这些目标不仅影响大学生，而且影响高中科学教师和他们的学生。这些目标中的每一个都通过实施将现代光学技术融入整个物理课程的活动来实现。该项目正在改编物理研究和教育文献中的实验，并改编更多的普通实验供教师和学生使用。