Integration of GC-MS in North Carolina A&T State University's Chemistry Curriculum

化学(12)正在开发研究型实验室课程，并将其纳入北卡罗来纳农工州立大学(NCAT)的化学课程。购买气相色谱-质谱仪(GC-MS)仪器的本科生正在大一和大二的实验室课程中使用，这些课程利用现实的问题和情况，通过积极的、以学生为中心的学习方法来激励和集中学习。这些实验室通过为学生提供开发研究项目的背景知识和使用最先进设备的经验，加强了系内正在进行的本科生研究。这些新课程的一个目标是改变学生思考和接近化学的方式，让他们在这个过程中获得在大学毕业后继续发展智力所需的技能。该项目的目标是增加STEM地区未被充分代表的少数民族博士人口，并增加NCAT化学专业本科生和研究生以及受邀社区大学参与者的研究经验。还正在开发六个补充性培训讲习班，重点介绍仪器的使用，包括：核磁共振、高效液相色谱、气相色谱-质谱仪、红外线和紫外可见光谱。这个项目的更广泛的影响是增加学生对如何完成研究项目的理解，增加学生对实验室技能的信心，并培养和指导物理科学中未被充分代表的学生成为未来的专业人员。

Chemistry (12) Research-based laboratory courses are being developed and integrated into the chemistry curriculum at North Carolina A&T State University (NCAT). The acquisition of a Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometer (GC-MS) instrument is being used by undergraduate students in freshman and sophomore laboratory courses that utilize realistic problems and situations to motivate and focus learning through active, student-centered learning methods. These laboratories are enhancing the undergraduate research that is on-going in the department by giving the students the background for developing a research project as well as experience using state-of-the-art equipment. An objective of these new courses is to change the way students think about and approach chemistry, having them gain, in the process, the skills they need to continue to grow intellectually beyond college. The goals of this project are to increase the underrepresented minority Ph.D. population in the STEM areas and increase the research experience of undergraduate and graduate chemistry majors at NCAT as well as invited community college participants. Six supplemental training workshops are also being developed that focus on the use of instrumentation including: NMR, HPLC, GC-MS, Infrared, and UV-Vis spectroscopy. The broader impacts of this project are to increase the students' understanding of how to complete research projects, increase the students' confidence in laboratory skills, and train and mentor underrepresented students in the physical sciences to become future professionals.