Equipment for Computer Interfacing in Undergraduate Physiology Laboratories.

本基金资助的新设备将为本科生开设三门生物学课程（人体解剖学与生理学、生物学原理和生物世界），这些课程包含大量生理学内容。该项目有三个主要重点：教学生如何将计算机与实验室设备连接，如何使用计算机获取数据，以及如何在计算机辅助下操作和分析数据。这种设备使得考虑心血管生理学、呼吸生理学和反射生理学的各个方面成为可能，这些方面以前由于缺乏必要的设备而无法在这些课程中解决。通过让学生更直接地参与，其他领域的实验室实验也得到了升级。以这种方式改进的实验室包括心电图实验室；肺生理实验室；运动生理学实验室；以及生物化学和人类遗传学实验室（在这些实验室中，计算机模拟被广泛使用）。一份实验室手册正在准备中，它反映了这位私家侦探和他的学生的实践经验。

New laboratory experiences for undergraduates in three Biology courses which have a substantial Physiology component (Human Anatomy and Physiology, Principles of Biology, and The Biological World) are being developed using new equipment acquired through this grant. The project has three major foci: teaching students how to interface computers with laboratory equipment, how to use computers to acquire data, and how to manipulate and analyze data with computer assistance. This equipment makes it possible to consider aspects of cardiovascular physiology, respiratory physiology, and the physiology of reflexes that previously could not be addressed in these courses because the requisite equipment was lacking. Laboratory experiments in other areas also are being upgraded by involving students more directly. Laboratories being improved in this way include the EKG labs; lung physiology labs; exercise physiology labs; and labs in biochemistry and human genetics (where computer simulations are being used extensively). A laboratory manual is being prepared that reflects the hands-on experiences of this P.I. and his students.