Upgrading an Undergraduate Quantitative Analysis Laboratory

在过去的十年里， 分析仪器的技术进步。 加州州立 洛杉矶在这个时候，我们特别关注的是， 科学教育和实践，仪器实验室 为不一定是化学专业的本科生提供指导 专业，但需要一定的化学技能，在他们的进步 自己的领域。 根据我们的经验，非化学专业的学生， 在化学方面，获得更好的理解， 化学概念和现代科学的潜力，当他们 使用最新仪器进行实验室实践 实验 该项目利用计算机荧光 光谱仪主要由学生每年使用。 的 在该水平上操作光谱仪相对容易 在化学课程中催化了一群非化学 专业掌握科学的兴奋，并增加 学生对自己进行实验的能力的信心， 改善他们学习科学的态度， 实现自己的职业目标。 该机构 将NSF的拨款与等额资金相匹配。

During the past decade, there have been significant technological advances in analytical instumentation. Cal State L.A.'s special concern at this time is the strong need to improve science education and hands-on, instrumentation-based laboratory instruction for undergraduates who are not necessarily chemistry majors but need certain chemistry skills for advancement in their own fields. In our experience, non-chemistry majors, like their counterparts in chemistry, gain a far better understanding of chemistry concepts and the potentials of modern science when they use up-to-date instrumentation for hands-on laboratory experiments. This project utilizes a computerized fluorescence spectrometer to be used mainly by students per year. The relative ease in the operation of the spectrometer at this level in the chemistry curriculum catalyzes a group of non-chemistry majors to grasp the excitement of science and increases the students' confidence in their ability to preform experiments and improve their attitudes toward studying science for the accomplishment of their professional goals. The institution is matching the NSF grant with an equal amount of funds.