Microcomputer Laboratory for Undergraduate Teaching in Biology

该奖项向佛罗里达州立大学生物科学系提供资金，帮助购买设备以建立一个计算机实验室，该实验室将向本科生传授定量分析和计算机素养技能。在本科课程中使用这些计算机整合量化练习是这个项目的一个主要目标。已经开发了三个初步的计算机练习，将定量分析与生物现象相结合。这些练习将重点放在全球生物多样性问题上，然后使用该练习的量化技能来检查相对生长以及动物的大小和形状方面的问题。这些演习将扩大，并将制定更多的演习。新实验室将为1000多名生物学专业本科生以及100多名中学/科学/数学教学新的跨学科专业的学生提供服务。该系的教职员工认为，计算机应该是用于获取本科生物学基本知识的工具，就像它们用于获取研究中的新知识一样。新的实验室和演习将朝着这一目标迈进。该部门将通过其两名电气工程师提供全面的维护，并将由分配到该实验室的一名全职计算机专家提供监督和安装。受赠人正在将该奖项与非联邦来源相匹配。

This award provides funds to the Department of Biological Sciences at Florida State University to help purchase equipment for the establishment of a computer laboratory which will teach undergraduates quantitative analyses and computer literacy skills. The integration of quantitative exercises using these computers in undergraduate courses is a major goal of this project. Three preliminary computer exercises have been developed that integrate quantitative analyses with biological phenomena. These exercises focus on the global problem of biodiversity and then use the quantitative skills from that exercise to examine problems in relative growth and the size and shape of animals. These exercises will be expanded and additional exercises will be developed. The new laboratory will serve more than 1000 undergraduate biology majors as well as the more than 100 students in the new interdisciplinary major in Secondary/Science/Mathematics teaching. Faculty in the department believe that computers should be a tool used for the acquisition of basic knowledge in undergraduate biology in the same way that they are used to acquire new knowledge in research. The new laboratory and exercises will move toward this goal. The department will provide complete maintenance thorough its two electrical engineers, and supervision and installation will be provided by a full-time computer specialist assigned to this laboratory. The grantee is matching this award with non-Federal sources.