Re-Inventing the Electronic Materials Laboratory: Hands-on Deposition and Testing of Active Component Materials by Undergraduate Classroom Students

工程-材料科学（57）该项目正在开发一种新的电子材料实验室课程，学生不仅可以测试晶体管等电子器件，还可以用其组成材料制造它们。该团队包括来自约翰霍普金斯大学（JHU）、德鲁大学和兰开斯特县走读学校的科学家和教育工作者。 课程模块涉及材料的主要类别，以及如何以足够简单的方式制作和处理它们，以便在设备材料方面具有最少的经验。模块涉及电子材料的制造，将其加工成可用作器件的形式，测试器件并检查其在电路中的使用。他们使用尖端和传统材料技术相结合的方法，只使用廉价、容易获得的设备。这些模块正在JHU进行测试，但也将在德鲁大学进行“实地测试”，德鲁大学是一所四年制大学，既没有JHU广泛的科学基础设施，也没有研究生助教基地，以及兰开斯特乡村走读学校，这是一所K-12学校，与JHU MRSEC的推广计划密切合作。实地测试报告将在科学和科学教育文献中广泛分发。与大学教育资源中心合作的评估工作，正在使用对学生产品的分析，焦点小组，参与者感知指标调查和直接观察来监控项目成果的进展。 更广泛的影响包括为电子材料实验室开发了一种相对简单、廉价的方法，分发了一本详细介绍该方法的实验室手册，并在另一所本科院校和一所高中进行了测试。

Engineering - Materials Science (57)The project is developing a new kind of electronics materials laboratory course in which students not only test electronic devices such as transistors, but also build them from their constituent materials. The team includes scientists and educators from Johns Hopkins University (JHU), Drew University, and Lancaster County Day School. Course modules are dealing with the major classes of materials and how to make and process them in ways that are simple enough to transfer to programs with minimal experience with device materials. Modules involve fabrication of electronic materials, processing them into the form in which they would be used as devices, testing the devices, and examining their use in circuits. They are using a combination of cutting-edge and traditional material technologies with only inexpensive, readily accessible equipment. The modules are being tested at JHU, but will also be "field-tested" at Drew University, a four-year institution with neither the extensive scientific infrastructure of JHU nor its base of graduate teaching assistants, and at the Lancaster Country Day School, a K-12 school that cooperates closely with the outreach program of the JHU MRSEC. Field test reports will be circulated widely in the scientific and science education literature. The evaluation effort with collaboration from the university's center for educational resources, is using an analysis of student products, focus groups, participant perception indicator surveys, and direct observations to monitor progress toward the project's outcomes. Broader impacts include the development of a relatively simple, inexpensive approach for an electronic materials laboratory, the dissemination of a laboratory handbook detailing the approach, and the testing at another undergraduate institution and at a high school.