Enhancing the Undergraduate Chemistry Laboratories Using Computer Assisted Data Acquisition Systems

这笔拨款支持购买19台带有接口板和相关网络硬件和软件的奔腾类、IBM兼容计算机，以改善学生在普通化学、分析化学和物理化学课程中的实验室教学。该设备允许在普通化学实验室和物理/分析化学实验室建立实验室信息管理系统（LIMS）。计算机辅助实验使学生在普通化学实验室中充分认识到基于发现的实验的潜力。计算机极大地促进了学生之间数据的收集和交换，使他们能够利用实验室时间来处理和分析这些数据。数据和图表易于操作，使学生能够进行进一步的探索，激发批判性思维，并引导他们获得新的发现。高级化学课程的学生除了使用计算机进行快速数据采集和分析外，还在更复杂的应用中使用这些计算机，例如设计自己的实验室信息管理系统。

This grant supports the purchase of 19 Pentium class, IBM compatible computers with interface boards and associated network hardware and software to improve laboratory instruction for students in general chemistry, analytical chemistry, and physical chemistry courses. This equipment permits the establishment of laboratory information management systems (LIMS) in the general chemistry laboratory and in the physical/analytical chemistry laboratory. Computer-assisted experiments enable students in the general chemistry laboratory to realize the full potential of discovery-based experiments. Computers so greatly facilitate the collection and exchange of data between students that they are able to use laboratory time to manipulate and analyze this data. The ease with which data and graphs can be manipulated permits students to make further explorations, stimulate critical thinking, and lead them to new discoveries. Students in advanced chemistry courses, in addition to using computers for rapid data acquisition and analysis, employ these computers in more sophisticated applications, such as designing their own laboratory information management systems.