Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometry: Curriculum Wide Improvements in Undergraduate Chemistry Instruction

通过该项目获得了一台傅里叶变换红外光谱仪和相关的采样附件，以实施一个教学项目，该项目已使该机构的本科生化学教学“全面”得到改善。该项目涉及利用FTIR及其数据站为高级课程和低级课程设计和实施实验。这项工作在三个方面提高了本科教学的质量，即：(1)作为教授模拟-数字关系和软件数据处理等高级工具概念的工具，(2)为学生提供实践经验，使用学术和工业研究生环境中常见的现代计算机化仪器，以及(3)通过让学生接触到红外分析的最新技术，激励他们将化学作为他们的主要学习领域。该机构为该项目提供的资金相当于国家科学基金会的资金。

A Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometer and related sampling accessories were acquired through this project in order to implement an instructional project which has yielded "across the board" improvements in undergraduate chemistry instruction at the institution. This project involved the design and implementation of experiments utilizing the FTIR and its data station for both upper and lower level courses. The work enhanced the quality of undergraduate instruction in three way, namely by (1) serving as a vehicle for teaching advanced instrumental concepts such as analog-digital relations and software data manipulation, (2) providing students hands-on experience with a modern, computerized instrument commonly encountered in academic and industrial postgraduate settings, and (3) motivating underclassmen to purse chemistry as their major field of study by exposing them to the "state of the art" in infrared analysis. The institution contributed to this project in an amount equal to the NSF funds.