Workshops for Faculty and Staff Development in Implementing Physics Advanced Laboratory Experiments

在美国国家科学基金会改进本科STEM教育计划：教育与人力资源（IUSE: EHR）的支持下，本项目旨在通过举办一系列研讨会，使物理教职员工能够在其本科高级实验室中采用改进的实验，从而为国家利益服务。这些教师和工作人员经常被指派在他们自己的研究专业之外的领域教授这些高级实验课程。教师通常缺乏专业知识来理解实验的背景，设计实验，或者最好地将实验与其他教学结合起来。这个项目对小型学校的教师尤其重要，因为他们往往无法获得大型学校的设施和专业知识。该项目将创建一个移动车间，能够将车间带到这些地点。先前的研讨会包括光子量子力学实验、核磁共振、量子类似物、霍尔效应、引力波干涉测量、石墨烯、高Tc超导、使用现场可编程门阵列（fpga）和开腔氦氖激光实验。该奖项支持的讲习班的主题将根据需求而定，并将包括新开发的高级实验室实验。讲习班的有效性将通过在讲习班结束后立即向参与者和导师分发问卷来评估。工作坊结束1年半后，参与者还将收到一份后续调查。这些问题将涉及讲习班的内容和价值，如果参与者在他们的家庭机构实施特色实验，以及这样做需要什么。NSF IUSE: EHR计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生STEM教育的有效性。通过参与学生学习轨道，该计划支持有前途的实践和工具的创建，探索和实施。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

With support from the NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education Program: Education and Human Resources (IUSE: EHR), this project aims to serve the national interest by conducting a series of workshops to enable physics faculty and staff members to adopt improved experiments in their undergraduate advanced laboratories. These faculty and staff members are often assigned to teach these advanced laboratory courses in areas beyond their own research specialty. The instructors often lack the expertise to understand the background of the labs, design the labs, or best integrate the labs with other instruction. This project is especially important for instructors in small schools who often lack access to the facilities and expertise found in larger institutions. The project will create a mobile workshop capable of bringing workshops to these locations as well.Previous workshops included quantum mechanics experiments with photons, nuclear magnetic resonance, quantum analogs, Hall effect, gravitational wave interferometry, graphene, high Tc superconductivity, using field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), and open cavity helium neon laser experiments. The topics for the workshops supported by this award will be governed by demand and will include newly developed upper division laboratory experiments. The effectiveness of the workshops will be evaluated by questionnaires distributed to the participants and mentors immediately after the workshops. There will also be a follow-up survey sent to the participants 1.5 years after the workshops. The questions will deal with the content and value of the workshops, if the participants implemented the featured experiment at their home institutions, and what was required to do so. The NSF IUSE: EHR Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. Through the Engaged Student Learning track, the program supports the creation, exploration, and implementation of promising practices and tools.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.