Collaborative Project Gemini SPM: Scanning Probe Microscopy in Undergraduate Chemistry Courses

化学（12）该合作项目将扫描探针显微镜（SPM）实验纳入伊利诺伊大学斯普林菲尔德分校（美国）和南伊利诺伊大学爱德华兹维尔分校（SIUE）的化学实验课程，并评估新开发的教育材料对学生学习的影响。双高分辨率动态AFM/STM仪器被整合到两所学校的化学课程中，所有相关的pi定期会面，交换意见和资源，并将两所学校的本科生聚集在一起分享经验。由于这个项目，每年大约有1100名理工科学生被引入扫描探针显微镜技术。这一人群还包括未来的药剂师、兽医、牙医和医生，这些都是需要对科学有基本了解的多样化劳动力。学生的学习目标包括：1)对科学的兴奋和热情；2)意识到科学思维的应用；3)理解表面化学；4)提高定量推理、解决问题、分析和概念综合。为了实现这些目标，随着学生在课程中的进步，实施的实验越来越复杂，并包括典型的扫描探针显微镜类型，包括STM， AFM，侧向力AFM和动态模式AFM。智力价值：这些活动通过使用实验室实验将扫描探针显微镜融入化学课程，使学生积极学习。现有的各种来源的实验室实验正在进行调整和实施，重点是将SPM应用于本科化学课程的各个层次。这些教育工具的模块化特性使教育工作者能够用新的活动取代过时的活动，而无需修改课程的各个方面，这种情况提供了一种可靠的手段，使扫描探针显微镜概念的教学制度化，面向广大学生。两所院校的专业人员都让本科生参与活动的发展和实施。更广泛的影响：该项目促进了参与开发学习资源的理工科本科生、研究生和教师之间的互动。由于这些活动吸引了大量的学生，它们有可能提高SIUE和UIS超过三分之一的本科生对科学和技术的理解。扫描探针显微镜活动的跨学科性质使它们成为展示发现与社会效益之间联系的有力工具。来自代表性不足群体和非传统学生的学生被包括在拟议的教育活动中，该项目产生的实验将通过基于网络的纳米级视频实验室手册和纳米世界电影电影院在全国范围内传播。

Chemistry (12)This collaborative project is incorporating scanning probe microscopy (SPM) experimentsinto chemistry laboratory courses at the University of Illinois at Springfield (UIS) and Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE), and is assessing the impact of the newly developed educational materials on student learning. Twin high resolution dynamic AFM/STM instruments are being integrated into the chemistry curriculum at both schools, and all of the PIs involved meet periodically, exchange ideas and resources, and bring undergraduate students from both institutions together to share experiences. Approximately 1100 science and engineering students each year are being introduced to scanning probe microscopy techniques as a result of this project. This population also includes future pharmacists, veterinarians, dentists, and physicians, all members of our diverse workforce that need a fundamental understanding of science. Student learning objectives include: 1) excitement and enthusiasm for science, 2) awareness of applications of scientific thinking, 3) understanding of surface chemistry, and 4) improved quantitative reasoning, problem solving, analysis, and synthesis of concepts. To address these objectives, implemented experiments increase in sophistication as students progress through the curriculum, and consist of typical types of scanning probe microscopy including STM, AFM, lateral force AFM, and dynamic mode AFM.Intellectual Merit: The activities integrate scanning probe microscopy into chemistry coursesthrough the use of laboratory experiments that engage students in active learning. Existinglaboratory experiments from a variety of sources are being adapted and implemented, with an emphasis on real life applications of SPM applied to all levels of the undergraduate chemistry curriculum. The modular nature of these educational tools enables educators to replace outdated activities with new ones without needing to revise all aspects of the curriculum, a situation that provides a reliable means of institutionalizing the teaching of scanning probe microscopy concepts to a broad cross-section of students. PIs at both institutions are involving undergraduate students in the development and implementation of the activities.Broader Impact: The project fosters interactions among science and engineering undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty who are involved in developing the learning resources. Since the activities are reaching large numbers of students, they have the potential to improve scientific and technological understanding in over one third of the undergraduate student population at SIUE and UIS. The interdisciplinary nature of scanning probe microscopy activities makes them powerful tools to demonstrate the link between discovery and societal benefits. Students from underrepresented groups and non-traditional students are included in the proposed education activities, and the experiments resulting from this project will be nationally disseminated through the web-based Nanoscale Video Lab Manual and Nanoworld Cineplex of Movies.