FTNMR Instrumentation and Modeling Software for Undergraduate Instruction in Chemistry

化学（12）知识价值。 该项目整合了NMR仪器和建模软件在整个化学课程的使用，以提高本科生的经验。 学生们通过接触更复杂的工具来说明课堂上遇到的材料，从而在智力上受到挑战。 他们也在本科研究项目中使用这些应用程序。 NMR仪器的使用在生物学、生物化学和卫生专业以及化学的所有领域都变得至关重要。 NMR的使用被美国化学学会专业培训委员会认为是本科生课程中必不可少的，并被美国国家科学院国家研究理事会地球和生命研究部生命科学委员会本科生生物学教育委员会（Committee on Undergraduate Biology Education to Prepare Research Scientists for the 21st世纪）引用为必要。 在这个项目中，使用Anasazi EFT 60 MHz仪器允许将NMR的有意义的应用整合到本科课程中。 斯巴达建模软件被用来整合建模整个课程，利用其他地方开发的众多成功的应用程序，以创建一套适合我们机构的活动。更广泛的影响。 该项目的结果将由参与的教师和学生通过在会议上的演讲、在教育期刊上的出版物和在我们的网站上发布来传播。 我们的学生在区域和国家会议上展示他们的本科研究项目的结果非常活跃的历史。 此外，来自工业界和学术机构的代表是核磁共振和科学教育方面的专家，他们在一个咨询委员会中任职，为该项目提供专门知识。 最后，一个东得克萨斯阿纳萨齐用户组已经成立，这是服务于建立一个重要的社区，这些核磁共振用户，包括四年和两年的机构。一群不同的学生正在受到这个项目的影响。 托马斯大学的学生团体反映了休斯顿市和德克萨斯州墨西哥湾沿岸在种族/民族，性别，年龄，宗教信仰和社会经济地位方面的多样性。 在过去的五年中，西班牙裔学生的入学率增加了30%，学生的种族分布现在包括14%的亚太岛民，6%的黑人非西班牙裔和33%的西班牙裔，使大学成为西班牙裔服务机构。 此外，在过去几年中，该机构学习化学课程的学生人数一直在增加，目前约有100个化学和生物学专业。

Chemistry (12)Intellectual Merit. This project integrates the use of NMR instrumentation and modeling software throughout the chemistry curriculum in order to enhance the undergraduate experience. Students are being intellectually challenged by being exposed to more sophisticated tools that illustrate the material encountered in the classroom. They also are using these applications in the undergraduate research program. The use of NMR instrumentation has become essential in biology, biochemistry, and the health professions, in addition to all areas of chemistry. Use of NMR has been deemed essential in the undergraduate curriculum by the American Chemical Society Committee on Professional Training and is cited as necessary by the Committee on Undergraduate Biology Education to Prepare Research Scientists for the 21st Century, Board on Life Sciences, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies. In this project, use of the Anasazi EFT 60 MHz instrument is allowing meaningful applications of NMR to be integrated into the undergraduate curriculum. Spartan modeling software is being used to integrate modeling throughout the curriculum by taking advantage of the numerous successful applications developed elsewhere to create a set of activities appropriate for our institution. Broader Impact. The results of this project will be disseminated by the involved faculty and students through presentations at conferences, publications in educational journals and posting on our web site. Our students have a history of being very active in presenting the results of their undergraduate research projects at regional and national conferences. In addition, representatives from industry and from academic institutions who are experts in NMR and scientific education are serving on an Advisory Committee to provide expertise for the project. Finally, an East Texas Anasazi Users Group has been formed that is serving to build an important community among these NMR users, including both four-year and two-year institutions. A diverse group of students is being impacted by this project. The student body at the University of St. Thomas reflects the diversity of the City of Houston and the Texas Gulf Coast in race/ethnicity, gender, age, religious affiliation, and socioeconomic status. Over the last five years the Hispanic student enrollment has increased by 30%, and the ethnic breakdown of the student body now includes 14% Asian Pacific Islander, 6% Black non-Hispanic, and 33% Hispanic, making the University a Hispanic Serving Institution. In addition, the number of students taking chemistry courses at the institution has been increasing over the last several years with a current level of approximately 100 declared majors in chemistry and biology.