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

实施物理高级实验室实验的教职员工发展研讨会

• 批准号: 1940925
• 负责人: Lowell McCann
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: American Association of Physics Teachers
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-01-15 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1940925&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshops; Faculty; Staff; Development; Implementing

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.

在NSF改善本科STEM教育计划：教育和人力资源(IUSE：EHR)的支持下，该项目旨在通过举办一系列研讨会来服务于国家利益，使物理教职员工能够在他们的本科高级实验室中采用改进的实验。这些教职员工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室课程。讲师往往缺乏了解实验室背景、设计实验室或最好地将实验室与其他教学相结合的专业知识。这一项目对小型学校的教师尤其重要，他们往往无法获得大型机构的设施和专门知识。该项目将创建一个流动研讨会，能够将研讨会带到这些地点。以前的研讨会包括光子、核磁共振、量子模拟、霍尔效应、引力波干涉测量、石墨烯、高超导、使用现场可编程门阵列(FPGA)的量子力学实验，以及开腔氦-霓虹灯实验。该奖项支持的研讨会的主题将根据需求而定，并将包括新开发的上级实验室实验。讲习班的成效将在讲习班结束后立即通过向学员和导师发放问卷的方式进行评估。讲习班结束1.5年后，还将向与会者发送一份后续调查。这些问题将涉及研讨会的内容和价值，参与者是否在本国机构实施特色实验，以及这样做需要什么。NSF IUSE：EHR计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生的STEM教育的有效性。通过参与的学生学习路径，该计划支持有前景的实践和工具的创建、探索和实施。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。