Transforming Advanced Chemistry Laboratories to Prepare Students for Challenges in Nanotechnology, Energy and the Environment

化学（12）“改造先进的化学实验室，为学生准备在纳米技术，能源和环境的挑战”在马里兰州大学正在测试的假设，延长和重复接触现代仪器是有效的教学高级化学实验室。 当前的科学问题越来越复杂，解决这些问题需要使用越来越复杂的仪器。随着现代化学测量工具的数量和复杂性的增加，对大学生进行工作场所或研究生学习中可能遇到的每一种技术的培训越来越不切实际。智力价值是开发方法，（a）使学生成为复杂的在完成开放式的，基于问题的练习和（B）提供可转移的技能，让学生快速掌握新的仪器在以后的实验室课程。 该项目的成果包括：（a）提高学生对物理和分析化学概念的理解;（B）为有抱负的化学家和生物化学家提供解决问题的技能，使他们能够回答现代实验问题;（c）培养对化学和生物化学知识的实验基础的认识;（d）向学生介绍相关领域的现代跨学科问题。被证明是最有效的创新将作为设计化学先进实验室课程的基础。 该项目的结果将具有广泛的影响，作为一个模型，以提高学生的学习，可以适应其他大学水平的化学课程。结果将在整个化学教育界传播，并可能对更广泛的STEM社区有用。

Chemistry (12) "Transforming Advanced Chemistry Laboratories to Prepare Students for Challenges in Nanotechnology, Energy and the Environment" at the University of Maryland is testing the hypothesis that extended and repeated exposure to modern instrumentation is effective for teaching upper-level chemistry laboratories. Current scientific problems are increasingly complex and solving them requires the use of increasingly sophisticated instrumentation. As the number and complexity of modern tools for chemical measurements increases, it is increasingly impractical to train undergraduates on every possible technique they might encounter in the workplace or in postgraduate studies. The intellectual merit is to develop methods to (a) enable students to become sophisticated at accomplishing open-ended, problem-based exercises and (b) provide transferable skills that allow students to quickly master new instrumentation in later laboratory courses. The project outcomes include (a) improving students' understanding of the concepts of physical and analytical chemistry, (b) providing aspiring chemists and biochemists with problem solving skills that will enable them to answer modern experimental problems, (c) fostering an appreciation of the experimental basis of chemical and biochemical knowledge and (d) introducing students to modern interdisciplinary problems in relevant areas. The innovations that prove most effective will serve as the basis for designing an advanced laboratory curriculum in chemistry. The project results will have broad impact by serving as a model for enhancing student learning that can be adapted to other university-level chemistry programs. The results will be disseminated throughout the chemical education community and are likely to be of use to the broader STEM community.