Adaptation and Adoption of Novel Applications of Optical Science and Engineering

光学科学与工程（OPSE）被认为是一种使能技术：一种应用于许多科学学科的技术，并有可能以重要的方式为这些学科做出贡献。在这个项目中，德克萨斯农工大学的四个生物光学实验室模块被采用并适应于新泽西理工大学现有的OPSE课程。将这些实验模块应用到不同的课程中，展示了生物光学的能力。这四个实验室模块是由S. Rastegar和G. Cote（生物医学工程）在他们自己的CRCD项目下开发的，分别是模拟激光手术、手性物质的偏振定量、组织光学特性的测量、生理荧光团的荧光光谱。这些实验模块被改编并实施到高年级本科阶段（物理化学和物理化学）和低年级阶段的课程（现代物理实验室和大一工程）。总的来说，我们面临的挑战是如何将这些实验模块应用到主要以工程和科学为导向，很少涉及生物科学的课程中。特别是，荧光光谱实验室模块经过修改，可以在不使用活体动物的情况下模拟生物细胞运输。偏振实验模块取代了现有的NJIT偏振旋转模块。为了使这个实验室适应新泽西理工大学，学生们测量了手性物质如d -葡萄糖引起的光旋转程度。为了使组织光学特性实验室适应新泽西理工大学，该模块分为两个部分：一个是模拟组织样本部分（吸收染料和散射球体），适用于大一到大三的课程，另一个是生物样本部分（牛肉、肝脏、鸡胸肉），适用于高年级课程。

Optical Science and Engineering (OPSE) is recognized as an enabling technology: a technology with applications to many scientific disciplines and with the potential to contribute in significant ways to those disciplines. In this project, four of Texas A&M's bio-optics laboratory modules are adopted and adapted into NJIT's existing OPSE curriculum. Adaptation/ Implementation of these laboratory modules into various courses demonstrates the enabling capabilities of bio-optics. The four laboratory modules, which were developed by S. Rastegar and G. Cote (Biomedical Engineering) under their own CRCD program, are Simulated Laser surgery, Polarimetric Quantification of Chiral Substances, Measurement of Tissue Optical Properties, Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Physiological Fluorophores. These laboratory modules are adapted and implemented into the upper division undergraduate level (OPSE I and II, Physical Chemistry) and the lower division level courses (Modern Physics Laboratory and Freshman Engineering). In general, the challenge is to adapt and Implement these laboratory modules into a curriculum which is predominantly engineering and science oriented with very little presence in biological sciences. In particular, the Fluorescence Spectroscopy laboratory module is modified to simulate biological cellular transport without the use of live animals. The polarimetric laboratory module replaces an existing NJIT module on polarization rotation. In adapting this lab to NJIT, the students measure the degree of light rotation due to chiral substances such as D-Glucose. In adapting the Tissue Optical Properties laboratory to NJIT, the module is divided into two components: a simulated tissue samples component (absorbing dye and scattering spheres) which is adapted to freshman through junior level and a biological samples component (beef, liver, chicken breast) which is adapted to senior level courses.