Making the Connections: An Integrated Approach to Physical and Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory

化学（12）本项目旨在激发本科生在化学不同领域之间建立智力桥梁，并在现代化的综合实验室环境中加强他们的批判性思维技能。物理和无机化学实验室的拟议合并为该机构的化学专业提供了在增强环境中学习的机会。合并扩展了传统上在物理和无机实验室课程中使用的方法，通过一系列项目，逐步从标准的“结构化”方法发展到一个更开放的方法，在团队合作驱动，自我激励的气氛。该方法刺激学生综合，整合和应用化学两个领域的概念，同时解决旨在复制研究环境的项目。该要求集中在获得激光系统，计算机硬件和软件，为学生提供一些现代光谱和计算方法的宝贵经验，这些方法与我们目前在上师实验室课程中使用的仪器和方法相结合。项目负责人正在改编和实施文献中的实验，并正在开发几个新项目，用于新课程。开发本课程和必要的实验课程材料提供了对其他教育工作者有用的信息。该项目涉及DUE的主题，即技术在教育和教师发展中的整合。

Chemistry (12) This project addresses the need to stimulate undergraduate students to build intellectual bridges between different areas of chemistry and to strengthen their critical thinking skills in a modernized integrated laboratory environment. The proposed merger of physical and inorganic chemistry laboratories provides chemistry majors at the institution with the opportunity to learn in an enhanced environment. The merger extends the approach traditionally used in the physical and inorganic lab courses through a series of projects that progressively evolves from the standard "structured" approach to a more open- ended approach in a teamwork-driven, self-motivated atmosphere. The approach stimulates the students to synthesize, integrate, and apply concepts from both areas of chemistry while tackling projects designed to replicate a research environment. The request centers on acquiring a laser system, and computer hardware and software to provide valuable experience for the students in a number of modern spectroscopic and computational methods used in concert with instrumentation and methods currently used in our upper division lab courses. The project directors are adapting and implementing experiments from the literature, and are developing several new projects to be used in the new course. Developing this course and the necessary lab course materials provides information that is useful to other educators. This project addresses the DUE themes of integration of technology in education and faculty development.