Integration of Quantitative Materials Characterization Throughout Chemistry & Physics Curricula, Purchase of Thermal Analysis, Viscometry, & Gel Permeation Chromatography E

由于聚合物和固态材料的科学，技术和经济重要性日益增长，许多国家科学和技术组织强烈鼓励将这些主题纳入科学，工程和技术专业和非专业的课程。在扬斯敦州立大学，我们已经将材料科学讲座主题和定性实验室实验整合到我们的许多化学和物理课程中。在本提案中的设备的收购将使我们能够扩大这一覆盖面，并通过高级化学实验室课程，凝聚态物理实验室课程，拟议的材料科学实验室课程，将许多新的定量合成和生物衍生的聚合物和固态材料实验引入我们的大二学生。非科学专业，包括教育专业，将使用这种仪器在新的实验室为基础的通识教育课程具有发现研究格式。 职前科学教师将接触到这些方法更深入地通过他们融入我们的课程在大二和大三的水平。 此外，材料表征将通过专门的暑期实验室课程和“服务”日完全整合到我们为在职教师提供的专业发展课程中，这些课程经过优化以满足科学教师的需求。所获得的热分析设备将使我们的学生能够定量评估固态，聚合物和生物相关材料的相变，并量化固态材料在高温下的化学反应。粘度计和GPC/SEC设备将使我们的学生能够量化合成和生物衍生聚合物的分子量和相关物理性质。这些新的定量实验结果将与讲座讨论中这些材料的基本物理原理和实际应用有关。该项目每年将直接影响400多名学生。

Because of the growing scientific, technological, and economic importance of polymeric and solid state materials, many national science and technology organizations strongly encourage the integration of these topics into the curriculum for both majors and non-majors in science, engineering, and technology. At Youngstown State University, we have already integrated Materials science lecture topics and qualitative lab experiments into many of our Chemistry and Physics courses. The acquisition of the equipment in this proposal will allow us to expand this coverage and introduce many new quantitative synthetic and biologically derived polymer and solid state materials experiments into our sophomore through senior level Chemistry lab classes, the condensed matter Physics lab classes, a proposed Materials Science lab course. Non-science majors, including education majors, will use this instrumentation in new lab based general education courses having the discovery research format. Pre-service science teachers will be exposed to these methods in more depth through their integration into our course offerings at the sophomore and junior levels. In addition, materials characterization will be fully integrated into our professional development offerings for working teachers through both specialized summer lab courses optimized to meet the needs of science teachers and through "in service" days. The acquired thermal analysis equipment will allow our students to quantitatively evaluate phase changes in solid state, polymeric and biologically relevant materials and to quantify the chemical reactions of solid state materials at elevated temperatures. The viscometry and GPC/SEC equipment will allow our students to quantify the molecular weights and related physical properties of synthetic and biologically derived polymers. These new quantitative experimental results will be related to both the underlying physical principles and the practical applications of these materials in lecture discussions. This instrum entation project will directly impact over 400 students each year.