Integrative Workstations to Enhance Undergraduate Learning and Research of Metabolic and Physiological Responses

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Biological Sciences (61)Exercise physiology is fundamental for researchers and majors in health fitness, athletic training,physical education, and health education. Not unlike other sciences, exercise physiologyinstruction that provides students with iihands-onl. laboratory experiences creates the mostpositive learning climate, leads to a more complete understanding of basic physiologicalprocesses, and increases comprehension of scientific principles, concepts and methods.Currently, due to lack of metabolic analyzing equipment, the instruction of many exercisephysiology laboratory activities has been done via more traditional demonstration methods thanfull and active student participation in the exercises themselves. The acquisition of keyinstructional equipment (metabolic analyzer and treadmill) will expand and strengthen theundergraduate student's experience in exercise physiology and help foster a direct problem-solving approach to the learning process in scheduled laboratory sessions, independent researchor other out-of-class projects. The objectives of this project are two-fold: a) to provide expiredgas analyzing instrumentation to enable students to study several fundamental exercisephysiology principles that cannot be investigated with the current equipment and b) to promoteand encourage active learning and student research opportunities. The improved learning andresearch resulting from the integration of the requested equipment into the curriculum willadvance the college's commitment to undergraduate research throughout the academic program.