Equipment for an Advanced Undergraduate Project Laboratory

化学系将获得一台二氧化碳激光器、一台紫外-可见分光光度计、一台气相色谱仪/质谱仪和一台图形工作站，供本科生实验室使用。该项目的重点是一个高级选修，以项目为导向的实验室，遵循麻省理工学院本科化学专业要求的三个学期的实验室顺序。参加本课程的学生将从可选的菜单中集中学习一到两个特定主题；他们将被要求设计自己的实验方案，在开始实验室工作之前准备详细的建议，并在教师导师和经验丰富的助教的指导下，以书面报告和口头研讨会的形式展示他们的结果。项目计划吸引各种各样的学生的兴趣，包括激光光化学和光谱学，蛋白质化学，环境污染物的痕量分析，微电化学装置，和先进的计算化学。将作出规定，将这些项目的结果传播给其他感兴趣的化学部门。

The Department of Chemistry will acquire a CO2 laser, a UV-VIS spectrophotometer, a gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer and a graphics workstation for use in the undergraduate laboratories. The focus of the project is an advanced elective, project-oriented laboratory to follow the required three-semester laboratory sequence for undergraduate chemistry majors at MIT. Students enrolled in this course will concentrate on one or two specific topics from a menu of available choices; they will be expected to devise their own experimental protocols, prepare detailed proposals before starting laboratory work, and present their results in the form of written reports and oral seminars, all under the guidance of faculty mentors and experienced teaching assistants. Projects are planned to appeal to a wide variety of student interests, including laser photochemistry and spectroscopy, protein chemistry, trace analysis of environmental contaminants, microelectrochemical devices, and advanced computational chemistry. Provisions will be made for disseminating the results of these projects to other interested chemistry departments.