Graphics Workstation for Undergraduate Teaching

这个项目正在购买一个由六个图形工作站组成的网络，与现有的Macintosh和DEC计算机一起，作为化学系本科课程和生物科学系药理学课程中计算化学领域新课程发展的基础。这些新计算机被用于大一化学、有机和高级有机化学、生物化学、聚合物化学、计算化学和高年级药理学课程，并用于支持学年和夏季的本科生研究项目。这种新仪器的功能可以向学生传达现代化学发展的现实和兴奋，并让这些学生参与练习和项目，让他们“动手”使用这些计算技术，作为我们本科课程的一个组成部分。到目前为止，这一领域的实验课程已经被学生们非常热情地接受，并为学生提供了一套技能，为他们在研究生和专业学校以及在散装化学和制药行业的职业生涯服务。

This project is purchasing a network of six graphics workstations that, together with existing Macintosh and DEC computers, serves as the basis for new course developments in the area of computational chemistry within the undergraduate curriculum in the chemistry department and the Pharmacology Program of the biological sciences department. The new computers are being used in courses in Freshman chemistry, organic and advanced organic chemistry, biochemistry, polymer chemistry, computational chemistry, and upper-division pharmacology courses and are being used to support undergraduate research projects in the academic year and the summers. The capabilities of this new instrumentation makes it possible to communicate to students the reality and excitement of modern developments in chemistry and to involve these students in exercises and projects that will give them "hands-on" access to these computational techniques as an integral part of our undergraduate curriculum. Thus far, experimental courses in this area have been very enthusiastically accepted by students and give students a set of skills that serve them in graduate and professional schools and careers in the bulk chemical and pharmaceutical industries.