Improving Undergraduate Chemistry Laboratory Education using Modern, Rapid Spectrophotometers.

化学(12)UV/VIS和UV/VIS/荧光微孔板阅读器，这两种仪器主要用于研究和工业应用，用于改进核心的本科化学课程。该项目全面探索了这些工具在加强化学课程方面的优势。实验室练习用机械简单的常规分光光度计和微孔板阅读器演示一般的光谱学概念，适用于所有级别的化学课程。微板阅读器的一个优点是快速生成大量数据。学生们现在花更多的时间在数据的解释和呈现上，这些技能可以转化为数学和科学的所有领域。这些仪器非常适合在招生人数较多的低年级班引入化学、生化和分析光谱学应用，也为高年级实验室班和本科生研究项目提供了许多优势。一个额外的UV/VIS/荧光微板阅读器安装在Salish Kotenai学院，这是一所美洲土著部落学院，以支持和加强正在进行的合作，包括生物化学课程和本科研究。成功演示拟议工具的优点对如何教授各种概念和方法具有重大影响。这些工具对许多机构来说是负担得起的，从而解决了更广泛的影响，并表明该项目中制定的成功的教学方法可以在全国范围内推广。

Chemistry (12)UV/Vis and UV/Vis/fluorescence microplate readers, instruments that have been used mostly for research and industrial applications, are used to improve the core undergraduate chemistry curriculum. The project comprehensively explores the advantages of these instruments for enhancement of the chemistry curriculum. Laboratory exercises that demonstrate general spectroscopy concepts with both mechanically simple, conventional spectrophotometers and the microplate readers are developed for use at all levels of chemistry courses. One advantage of the microplate reader is the rapid generation of large amounts of data. Students now spend more time on interpretation and presentation of data, skills that translate to all areas of math and science. These instruments are ideally suited for introducing chemical, biochemical, and analytical spectroscopy applications in large enrollment lower division classes and they also provide many advantages for the upper-division laboratory classes and undergraduate research projects. One additional UV/Vis/fluorescence microplate reader is housed at Salish Kootenai College, a Native American Tribal College, to support and enhance ongoing collaborations, including a biochemistry course and undergraduate research. Successful demonstration of the advantages of the proposed instrumentation has a significant impact on how various concepts and methodologies are taught. The instruments are affordable for many institutions, thereby addressing broader impacts and suggesting that the successful pedagogical approaches developed in this project can be adapted nationally.