Undergraduate Engineering Laboratory for Quantitative Analysis and Design of Molecular and Cellular Systems

我们的团队正在采用一种创新的方法来实现一个本科生实验室，同时开发和应用工程工具来操纵、控制和利用分子和细胞。设计主题被整合到整个实验室，以促进学生将生命科学概念与工程原理联系起来。我们正在为这门课程开发一个基于网络的组件，以使不同准备水平的学生能够达到成功完成这门基础课程所必需的整合水平。我们正在构建一个包含三个网络模块的网站：i)虚拟实验室工作台；Ii)定量和统计分析；iii)生物分子结构、功能和应用。一旦网站完成，我们将使每个大学和项目都可以访问它，包括那些湿实验室资源有限的大学和项目，并极大地扩大普渡大学这项活动的影响，使其受益于更广泛的科学和教育界。

Our team is adapting an innovative approach towards implementing an undergraduate laboratory, by simultaneously developing and applying engineering tools towards manipulating, controlling, and utilizing molecules and cells. Design themes are being integrated throughout the laboratories to facilitate students to connect life sciences concepts with engineering principles. We are developing a web-based component for this course in order to enable the students from varying levels of preparedness to achieve the level of integration necessary to be successful in this fundamental course. We are constructing a website with three web modules: i) a virtual laboratory bench; ii) quantitative and statistical analysis; and iii) biomolecular structure, function, and applications. Once the website is complete we will make it accessible to every university and program, including those with limited resources for wet-laboratories, and dramatically extend the impact of this Purdue activity to benefit the broader scientific and educational community.