Making the Connections: An Integrated Approach to Physical and Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory

化学(12)这个项目致力于激发本科生在不同化学领域之间建立智力桥梁，并在现代化的综合实验室环境中加强他们的批判性思维能力。拟议中的物理化学和无机化学实验室的合并为该机构的化学专业学生提供了在更好的环境中学习的机会。这一合并通过一系列项目扩展了物理和无机实验课程传统上使用的方法，这些项目在团队合作驱动、自我激励的氛围中逐渐从标准的“结构化”方法演变为更开放的方法。这种方法刺激学生综合、整合和应用化学两个领域的概念，同时处理旨在复制研究环境的项目。申请的重点是获得激光系统以及计算机硬件和软件，以便为学生提供一些现代光谱和计算方法方面的宝贵经验，这些方法与我们高级实验室课程中目前使用的仪器和方法相结合。项目负责人正在改编和实施文献中的实验，并正在开发几个新项目，用于新课程。开发本课程和必要的实验课程材料可提供对其他教育工作者有用的信息。该项目涉及将技术整合到教育和教师发展中的应有主题。

Chemistry (12) This project addresses the need to stimulate undergraduate students to build intellectual bridges between different areas of chemistry and to strengthen their critical thinking skills in a modernized integrated laboratory environment. The proposed merger of physical and inorganic chemistry laboratories provides chemistry majors at the institution with the opportunity to learn in an enhanced environment. The merger extends the approach traditionally used in the physical and inorganic lab courses through a series of projects that progressively evolves from the standard "structured" approach to a more open- ended approach in a teamwork-driven, self-motivated atmosphere. The approach stimulates the students to synthesize, integrate, and apply concepts from both areas of chemistry while tackling projects designed to replicate a research environment. The request centers on acquiring a laser system, and computer hardware and software to provide valuable experience for the students in a number of modern spectroscopic and computational methods used in concert with instrumentation and methods currently used in our upper division lab courses. The project directors are adapting and implementing experiments from the literature, and are developing several new projects to be used in the new course. Developing this course and the necessary lab course materials provides information that is useful to other educators. This project addresses the DUE themes of integration of technology in education and faculty development.