A-PLUS Applied Physics Laboratory for Undergraduate Success

工程物理项目招收了40个专业和更多的辅修专业，而且人数还在增加。该项目四年前开始专注于工程物理，并具有强大的应用物理组成部分，由具有出色准备和专业知识的教师提供尖端课程。该项目与当地的一所社区学院和新泽西理工学院保持着互惠协议。该项目的目标是进一步发展Ramapo大学物理课程，特别是在本科生研究方面。这个项目增加了一个医学物理实验室，致力于医学物理课程，这是一个日益令人感兴趣的领域。该实验室的目标是在特定的应用物理领域创造实践技能，增进学生对该主题的理解，并为三年级和四年级学生创造本科水平的研究机会。该实验室正在帮助为教职员工和学生创造机会，学习尖端物理，并加强工程物理课程。智力价值：这个项目的智力价值包括在医学物理领域开发新的实验室课程内容。该实验室是新泽西州公立本科院校的独一无二的实验室。新的实验室环境促进了教师的发展和教师指导的本科生在新的科学技术领域的研究。更广泛的影响：通过创造所需的研究和实验室环境，该项目解决了全国范围内学生对前沿物理主题经验太少的问题。正在通过物理教育和研究论文以及在国内和国际会议上的陈述来传播研究成果。在与文理学院理事会(COPLAC)和电气电子工程师协会(IEEE)的年度会议上，该项目正在接触四年制大学，并让它们参与关于类似的工程物理课程的对话。在当地，该项目正在与罗克兰社区学院和新泽西理工学院合作，为他们的物理和工程专业学生提供实验室和课程。

The engineering physics program enrolls 40 majors and additional minors, and the numbers are increasing. The program became focused on engineering physics four years ago and has a strong applied physics component, with cutting edge courses offered by faculty with excellent preparation and expertise. The program maintains reciprocal agreements with a local community college and New Jersey Institute of Technology. The goal of this project is to further develop the Ramapo College physics program, especially in undergraduate research. This project is adding a laboratory in Medical Physics dedicated to the Medical Physics course, a growing area of interest. The goal of the laboratory is to create hands-on skills in the particular field of applied physics, to enhance students' understanding of the topic, and to create research opportunities at the undergraduate level for juniors and seniors. The laboratory is helping to create opportunities for faculty and students to do cutting-edge physics and strengthen the engineering physics curriculum. Intellectual Merit: The intellectual merit of this project consists of the development of new laboratory curriculum components in the fields of Medical Physics. This laboratory is unique for the public colleges of the state of NJ at the undergraduate level. The new laboratory environment fosters faculty development and faculty-guided undergraduate research in new areas of science and technology. Broader Impacts: By creating the needed research and laboratory environments, this project addresses the nationwide problem that students have too little experience with frontier physics topics. Findings are being disseminated through physics education and research papers and presentations at national and international conferences. At yearly meetings with the Council of Liberal Arts Colleges (COPLAC), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the project is reaching four-year colleges and engaging them in a conversation about similar engineering physics curricula. Locally, the project is collaborating with Rockland Community College as well as New Jersey Institute of Technology, to offer laboratory and course offerings to their physics and engineering students.