Computer Graphics and Computation in the Undergraduate Organic and Molecular Modeling Courses

该项目在化学系建立了一个计算机图形实验室，使学生能够获得分子可视化、建模和计算技术的实践经验。该实验室用于学生学习有机化学、物理有机化学和分子建模课程。化学概念在课程中使用计算机图形学和可视化来演示，学生在实验室中自己完成指定的练习，以加强和扩展他们对概念的学习。有机化学实验实验课有两节课转变为分子建模课，图形实验室在目前的分子建模选修课中被广泛使用。独立的、由学生发起的分子建模项目正在受到鼓励，新的设备允许进行复杂的研究。将计算机方法纳入本科化学的有效性将在国家会议和研究论文中报告。这个项目正在推进马萨诸塞大学、加州大学圣克鲁斯分校和其他地方的合作者的参与，准备在本科课程中使用分子建模的教学大纲。＊

The project establishes a computer graphics laboratory in the Chemistry Department to enable students to gain hands-on experience in molecular visualization, modeling, and computational techniques. The laboratory is used by students in courses in organic chemistry, physical organic chemistry, and molecular modeling. Chemical concepts are demonstrated in course lectures using computer graphics and visualization, and students perform assigned exercises themselves in the laboratory to reinforce and extend their learning of the concepts. Two sessions of the organic chemistry experimental laboratory course are being transformed into molecular modeling sessions, and the graphics laboratory is being used extensively for the current elective course on molecular modeling. Independent, student-initiated molecular modeling projects are being encouraged, and the new equipment allows for sophisticated studies. The effectiveness of incorporating computer methods into undergraduate chemistry will be reported at national meetings and in research papers. This project is advancing involvement with collaborators at the University of Massachusetts, the University of California at Santa Cruz, and elsewhere in preparing a syllabus for the use of molecular modeling in the undergraduate curriculum. *