Acquisition of an FTNMR Spectrometer for the Transition to an Investigative Laboratory Program in Chemistry

化学（12）在伯明翰南方学院的化学系，我们正在丰富我们的学生的学习经验，通过开发一个新的化学课程，其中包括更多的经验，调查实验室练习整个化学计划。FT-NMR和该部门的其他仪器用于通过使用现代仪器来演示科学问题的解决。我们的目标是通过调整和开发实验室实验来提高学生的批判性思维能力，这些实验要求他们制定协议，在小组中合作，并在口头演示中捍卫结果。为了实现这一目标，我们正在调整一些实验形式的化学教育文献，并将其作为合作实验室项目实施到有机，物理，生物化学，无机和高级分析课程中。我们的部门已经取得了重大进展，将调查实验室纳入我们的课程，并制定了积极的本科研究计划。第二个目标是进一步延续这一趋势。NMR光谱仪对于实现这一目标至关重要，因为它已成为化学中的重要工具。我们的学生接触到核磁共振光谱学在各个层次开始与有机化学和最终与独立的研究。随着埃尔顿B的完工。斯蒂芬斯科学中心在2002年春天，其显着增强的教学和研究设施，更好地反映了我们的新的教学方式，我们希望看到在参与科学的学生人数增加，从而受到新的化学课程的影响。我们还将仪器提供给迈尔斯学院，这是一所位于亚拉巴马费尔菲尔德的历史悠久的小型黑人学院，用于教学和研究。

Chemistry (12)At the Chemistry Department of Birmingham-Southern College, we are enriching the learning experience of our students by developing a new chemistry curriculum which includes more experiential, investigative laboratory exercises across the chemistry program. FT-NMR and other instruments in the department are used to demonstrate scientific problem solving through the use of modern instrumentation. Our goal is to improve students critical thinking skills by adapting and developing laboratory experiments that require them to develop protocols, collaborate in groups, and defend results in oral presentations. To accomplish this, we are adapting a number of experiments form the chemical education literature and implementing them as collaborative laboratory projects into the Organic, Physical, Biochemistry, Inorganic, and Advanced Analytical courses. Our department has already made significant progress in incorporating investigative laboratories into our curriculum and developing an active undergraduate research program. A second goal is to further continue this trend. An NMR spectrometer is critical for fulfilling this goal since it has become an essential tool in chemistry. Our students are exposed to NMR spectroscopy at all levels beginning with organic chemistry and culminating with independent research. With the completion of the Elton B. Stephens Science Center in the spring of 2002, and its significantly enhanced teaching and research facilities that better reflect our new way of teaching, we expect to see an increase in the number of students involved in the sciences and thus impacted by the new chemistry curriculum. We are also making the instrument available to Miles College, a small, historically black college in Fairfield, Alabama, for use in both teaching and research.