Thin Film Technologies: Combined Research-Curriculum Development

摘要本提案的目标是利用菜单驱动的、易于访问的、独立的、交互式的CD-ROM格式的学习模块，帮助工程本科学生展示、评估和传播这些基本原理。我们的任务将涵盖广泛的薄膜结构、沉积方法和表征技术，强调我们的专业知识，并让学生尽可能多地参与实验。我们的专业知识还包括薄膜生长和薄膜器件性能的图形模拟，以及多媒体制作和课件开发。CD-ROM软件将包括大量逐渐复杂的示例案例研究。模拟是一种强大的、视觉上吸引人的教育工具，它可以很容易地利用仍在发展的多媒体格式，对许多关于这些反应堆的理论、设计和操作以及薄膜和设备配置的假设场景进行深入探索。将相关实验技术的研究与使用透明界面的计算机模拟的研究相结合，即使在所提出的模块中难以学习的部分，也可以保持用户的兴趣。＊＊＊

9420571 Babu ABSTRACT The goal of this proposal is to assist in the presentation, evaluation and dissemination of these underlying principles to undergraduate engineering students utilizing menu-driven, easily accessible, self-contained, interactive learning modules delivered in the CD-ROM format. Our task will be to cover a broad range of film structures, methods of deposition, and characterization techniques emphasizing our expertise and involving the student in as much experimental contact as possible. Our collective expertise also includes graphic simulation of film growth and thin film device performance as well as multimedia production and courseware development. The CD-ROM software will include a large number of progressively complex example case studies. Simulation is a powerful and visually appealing educational tool that can easily lend itself, using the still evolving multi-media format, to intensive exploration of many what-if scenarios concerning the theory, design and operation of these reactors as well as film and device configurations. Combining the study of the associated experimental techniques with that of computer simulations using transparent interfacing can sustain the interest of the user even over difficult-to-learn segments of the proposed modules. ***