Integrating the Undergraduate Chemistry Laboratory Curriculum through a Versatile, Laser-Based Experimental System

化学(12)在大多数大学里，化学专业本科生的传统教学方式是开设一系列的实验室课程，作为课堂课程的补充。每门实验课程都有实验，这些实验是根据它们与同时授课材料的相关性而选择的。该项目正在实施一个新的实验室课程的原型，在该课程中，选择实验不仅是因为它们与同时进行的课程材料有关，而且还为了说明和加强在不同级别教授的主题之间的联系。当前文献中的各种实验正在被改编用于新课程。该课程有两个当前课程中没有的主要特点：(1)从入门课程开始的一系列实验，并继续在高级课程中日益复杂和应用更高级的概念；(2)在所有实验课程中利用激光技术来说明和加强概念之间的联系。激光实验系统还使几个现代概念能够被引入到实验室课程中，这些概念以前只在讲座课程中作为理论介绍。

Chemistry (12) The traditional way of teaching chemistry to undergraduate chemistry majors at most colleges and universities is to include a series of laboratory courses that complement the lecture courses. Each lab course has experiments chosen for their relevance to the concurrent lecture material. This project is implementing a prototype of a new laboratory curriculum, in which experiments are chosen not just for their relevance to concurrent course material, but also to illustrate and reinforce the connections between topics taught at different levels. A variety of experiments from current literature is being adapted for use in the new curriculum. The curriculum has two key features not present in the current curriculum: (1) sequences of experiments that begin in the introductory course and continue with increasing sophistication and application to more advanced concepts in the upper-level courses; and (2) utilization of laser technology in all lab courses to illustrate and reinforce the connections between concepts. The laser experimental system also enables several modem concepts to be introduced into the laboratory curriculum that were previously only presented as theory in the lecture courses.