Laboratory Course Integrating Synthetic and Biomacromolecules

合成与生物大分子相结合的实验课程

• 批准号: 0127255
• 负责人: Haskell Beckham
• 金额: $ 19.05万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-03-15 至 2005-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0127255&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Laboratory; Course; Integrating; Synthetic; Biomacromolecules

Engineering - Materials Science (57)Our recently developed undergraduate laboratory course has been designed to provide a balanced and integrated treatment of synthetic and biomacromolecules, while providing students with essential hands-on experience in their synthesis and analysis. Our course has relevance for undergraduate programs in polymer and materials science. In addition, such laboratory exercises also have value in either organic or physical chemistry lab courses, in which the integration of fundamental chemical concepts can be demonstrated using intrinsically interesting materials: macromolecules. Our pedagogical approach for the course is to convey the macromolecular concept, that the science and engineering of macromolecules can be presented as a set of general principles and fundamentals, regardless of source. We have achieved these objectives by creating a suite of new multicomponent laboratory experiments, each with a dual purpose: (1) introduce a particular macromolecular concept, and (2) introduce one or more particular laboratory techniques. Each of these laboratories will be developed around macromolecules derived from both synthetic and biosynthetic pathways. A special feature of the new course has been molecular modeling of macromolecules as an undergraduate laboratory exercise, thus providing students with an avenue for conducting experiments even if they find themselves without access to traditional laboratory facilities. If faculty wish to adopt our course we have created a laboratory manual textbook, complete with introductory material, detailed experimental procedures, and supporting reference materials as a comprehensive set of appendices. Through our laboratory course, undergraduates have built firm foundations for industrial practice, graduate education, and graduate research in macromolecular science and engineering.

工程-材料科学（57）我们最近开发的本科实验室课程旨在提供合成和生物大分子的平衡和综合治疗，同时为学生提供合成和分析方面的基本实践经验。我们的课程与聚合物和材料科学的本科课程相关。此外，这样的实验室练习在有机或物理化学实验室课程中也有价值，在这些课程中，基本化学概念的整合可以使用本质上有趣的材料来证明：大分子。本课程的教学方法是传达大分子的概念，即大分子的科学和工程可以作为一组一般原则和基本原理来呈现，无论来源如何。我们通过创建一套新的多组分实验室实验来实现这些目标，每个实验具有双重目的：（1）引入特定的大分子概念，以及（2）引入一种或多种特定的实验室技术。每个实验室都将围绕来自合成和生物合成途径的大分子进行开发。新课程的一个特点是大分子的分子建模作为本科实验室练习，从而为学生提供了一个进行实验的途径，即使他们发现自己无法获得传统的实验室设施。如果教师希望采用我们的课程，我们已经创建了一个实验室手册教科书，完整的介绍材料，详细的实验程序，并支持参考资料作为一套全面的附录。通过我们的实验室课程，本科生为大分子科学与工程的工业实践，研究生教育和研究生研究奠定了坚实的基础。