A-PLUS Applied Physics Laboratory for Undergraduate Success

A-PLUS 应用物理实验室帮助本科生取得成功

• 批准号: 1044398
• 负责人: Daniela Buna
• 金额: $ 7.9万
• 依托单位: Ramapo College of New Jersey
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-01 至 2013-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1044398&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PLUS; Applied; Physics; Laboratory; Undergraduate

The engineering physics program enrolls 40 majors and additional minors, and the numbers are increasing. The program became focused on engineering physics four years ago and has a strong applied physics component, with cutting edge courses offered by faculty with excellent preparation and expertise. The program maintains reciprocal agreements with a local community college and New Jersey Institute of Technology. The goal of this project is to further develop the Ramapo College physics program, especially in undergraduate research. This project is adding a laboratory in Medical Physics dedicated to the Medical Physics course, a growing area of interest. The goal of the laboratory is to create hands-on skills in the particular field of applied physics, to enhance students' understanding of the topic, and to create research opportunities at the undergraduate level for juniors and seniors. The laboratory is helping to create opportunities for faculty and students to do cutting-edge physics and strengthen the engineering physics curriculum. Intellectual Merit: The intellectual merit of this project consists of the development of new laboratory curriculum components in the fields of Medical Physics. This laboratory is unique for the public colleges of the state of NJ at the undergraduate level. The new laboratory environment fosters faculty development and faculty-guided undergraduate research in new areas of science and technology. Broader Impacts: By creating the needed research and laboratory environments, this project addresses the nationwide problem that students have too little experience with frontier physics topics. Findings are being disseminated through physics education and research papers and presentations at national and international conferences. At yearly meetings with the Council of Liberal Arts Colleges (COPLAC), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the project is reaching four-year colleges and engaging them in a conversation about similar engineering physics curricula. Locally, the project is collaborating with Rockland Community College as well as New Jersey Institute of Technology, to offer laboratory and course offerings to their physics and engineering students.

工程物理课程招收40个专业和额外的未成年人，而且数量还在增加。 四年前，该计划开始专注于工程物理，并具有强大的应用物理部分，由具有出色准备和专业知识的教师提供尖端课程。该计划与当地社区学院和新泽西理工学院保持互惠协议。该项目的目标是进一步发展拉马波学院的物理课程，特别是在本科研究。该项目增加了一个医学物理实验室，专门用于医学物理课程，这是一个越来越受关注的领域。 实验室的目标是在应用物理的特定领域创造动手技能，提高学生对该主题的理解，并为大三和大四学生创造本科阶段的研究机会。该实验室正在帮助为教师和学生创造机会，做尖端物理和加强工程物理课程。智力优势：该项目的智力价值包括在医学物理学领域开发新的实验室课程组成部分。 这个实验室是唯一的新泽西州的公立大学在本科水平。 新的实验室环境促进了教师的发展和教师指导的本科生在科学和技术的新领域的研究。更广泛的影响：通过创造所需的研究和实验室环境，该项目解决了全国范围内的问题，即学生对前沿物理课题的经验太少。研究结果正在通过物理教育和研究论文以及在国家和国际会议上的介绍进行传播。在与文理学院理事会（COPLAC）和电气和电子工程师协会（IEEE）的年度会议上，该项目正在接触四年制大学，并让他们参与关于类似工程物理课程的对话。在当地，该项目正在与罗克兰社区学院以及新泽西理工学院合作，为物理和工程专业的学生提供实验室和课程。