Incorporation of Problem-Based Learning into Two Courses -- Technology Foundations II-Materials and Bioprocessing -- in the Integrated Science, Business and Technology Program

跨学科（99）拉萨尔大学通过将基于问题的学习（PBL）纳入两门课程，是其新的综合科学，商业和技术（ISBT）计划的组成部分，以提高学生的学习。在詹姆斯麦迪逊大学一个非常成功的计划后，ISBT是一个跨学科的，本科专业，借鉴拉萨尔在科学，技术和商业教育的坚实传统，培养毕业生是唯一有资格采取积极的领导作用，在科学和经济上知情的解决方案到达现实世界的问题。资金用于购买两台UTM、一台带自动取样器的气相色谱仪和两台5升B。博朗B发酵系统，并支持教师和技术基础II-材料（高级）和生物加工（初级）的课程开发。材料是围绕学生使用通用试验机（UTM）设计的，学生正在学习使用UTM来测试黑色和有色金属，聚合物和弹性体，陶瓷，复合材料和粘合剂，并执行拉伸，压缩，剪切和弯曲测试。这种实验室密集型的方法提供了一个学期的课程内广泛的材料类型的调查，并允许每个学生发现材料类型和物理行为的有效分类。生物处理旨在整合以前课程中介绍的概念，并传授发酵系统基础知识，几种不同的哺乳动物和微生物生化系统的知识，以及每个系统的独特要求的理解。学生操纵和使用实时数据，以保持发酵系统的控制。PBL是通过促进小学生团体和利用新设备提供。

Interdisciplinary (99)LaSalle University is enhancing student learning by incorporating Problem-Based Learning (PBL) into two courses that are integral components of its new Integrated Science, Business and Technology (ISBT) Program. Modeled after a very successful program at James Madison University, ISBT is an interdisciplinary, undergraduate major that draws on LaSalle's solid traditions in science, technology, and business education to develop graduates that are uniquely qualified to take active leadership roles in arriving at scientifically and economically informed solutions to real-world problems. Funds are being used to purchase two UTMs, one Gas Chromatograph with auto sampler, and two, 5-liter B. Braun B Fermentation Systems, and to support faculty and curriculum development for Technology Foundations II-Materials (sophomore-level) and Bioprocessing (junior-level). Materials are designed around student use of a Universal Testing Machine (UTM) and students are learning to use the UTM to test ferrous and non-ferrous metals, polymers and elastomers, ceramics, composites, and adhesives and to perform tensile, compression, shear, and flexure testing. This laboratory-intensive approach affords the investigation of a broad range of material types within a one-semester course and permits each student to discover a valid taxonomy of material type and physical behavior. Bioprocessing is designed to integrate concepts introduced in previous courses and imparts an understanding of fermentation system fundamentals, knowledge of several different mammalian and microbial biochemical systems, and an appreciation of the unique requirements of each system. Students manipulate and use real-time data to keep fermentation systems under control. PBL is being delivered through facilitated small student groups and utilize the new equipment.