A Cooperative Multidepartmental Computer Faculty for Under- graduate Science Laboratories

通过该项目获得的计算机数据收集系统被用于向明德学院理科本科学生介绍当代实验科学的一个重要领域，而在此之前，该领域在学校的生物、化学、地质和物理课程中没有被充分代表。这些系统允许实时计算机技术的教学，这是分析科学的一个领域，其内容在早期的课程中主要是描述性的。参加高级论文课程和仪器分析课程的学生将获得与他们在研究生院或工业中遇到的类似的最先进的计算设备的经验。在与课程相关的学习和独立的高级项目中，该设备提高了学生解决问题的能力，并向他们介绍了当代计算机技术。该学院用自己的资金进行的一个试点项目已经验证了这种方法，并使材料和方法的开发成为可能。

The computer data collection systems procured through this project are being used to introduce Middlebury College undergraduate science students to an important area of contemporary experimental science previously underrepresented in the school's biology, chemistry, geology and physics curricula. These systems permit the teaching of real-time computer techniques, an area of analytical science whose coverage in earlier courses was predominantly descriptive. Students in senior thesis programs and instrumental analysis courses gain experience with state-of-the-art computing equipment similar to that which they will encounter in graduate school or industry. In both the course-related studies and independent senior projects, this equipment enhances students' problem solving skills, and introduces them to contemporary computer techniques. A pilot project conducted by the college with its own funds already has validated the approach, and has enabled the development of materials and methods.