A Computer Laboratory to Support Integration of Visualization and Computation into the Curriculum

化学（12）本项目旨在培养学生理解和可视化物质微粒本质的能力。分子模拟和计算化学在学术界和工业界都扮演着越来越重要的角色。配备ChemOffice Ultra、Mathcad、Odyssey和Spartan软件包的计算机实验室允许将可视化和计算集成到化学课程中。帮助学生理解化学现象的能力和发展更好的空间和可视化技能的活动被纳入课堂和实验室。这些活动还允许学生使用建模工具进行预测，然后将其与实验结果进行比较，从而促进对分子结构如何影响性质的理解。其他活动使用Mathcad来探索化学过程的数学描述。在较低水平的课程中，这些程序帮助学生更好地将概念形象化。随着学生对软件的熟练程度提高，同样的程序允许在高级课程中进行更多的调查性分析。

Chemistry (12)This project addresses the need for students to develop the ability to understand and visualize the particulate nature of matter. There is an increasingly important role for molecular modeling and computational chemistry in both academia and industry. A computer laboratory equipped with ChemOffice Ultra, Mathcad, Odyssey, and Spartan software packages allows for integration of visualization and computation into the chemistry curriculum. Activities that aid students in their ability to understand chemical phenomena and develop better spatial and visualization skills are incorporated into both lecture and laboratory. These activities also promote understanding of how molecular structure influences properties by allowing students to use modeling tools to make predictions and then compare them to experimental results. Other activities use Mathcad for exploring mathematical descriptions of chemical processes. In lower level courses the programs help students to better visualize concepts. The same programs allow for more investigative analyses in upper level courses as students become more competent with the software.