Hands-On Modules for Use in a Chemistry of Materials Course

用于材料化学课程的实践模块

• 批准号: 9850825
• 负责人: Linda Schadler
• 金额: $ 9.99万
• 依托单位: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-06-01 至 2001-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9850825&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Hands; Modules; Use; Chemistry; Materials

The purpose of this proposal is to complete the development of an active learning environment in the Chemistry of Materials course taken by all engineers at Rensselaer. This goal can be accomplished by the acquisition of a teaching optical microscope, table-top tensile machines, micro ohmmeters, pressure gages, temperature controllers, thermocouple readouts, and regulators. This equipment will enable us to develop hands-on experiments which we will use to teach the principles necessary for the Chemistry of Materials course. The Chemistry of Materials course is being taught in an interactive format with 15 teams of four students per class. The two 2-hour interactive sessions per week are broken up into modules. Each module begins with the presentation of a concept / principle by the faculty member. This presentation takes the form of a mini lecture by the instructor, or a demonstration, either "real time" or computer generated, or some combination of the two. Students are then given either a "team problem" exemplifying the principle just covered or a hands-on experience that provides a practical application of the principle. The problems or hands-on exercises are to be completed as a team with each member responsible for teaching to, or learning from the others on his/her team. In a two-hour session, two or three of these modules are covered. The course is taught in a multimedia room with a computer available to teach team of four students and the ability to project information from the computer onto a screen. The computers are used to access the World Wide Web (WWW), run multimedia software, and solve simple problems.

该提案的目的是在伦斯勒所有工程师学习的材料化学课程中完成主动学习环境的开发。 这一目标可以通过购买教学光学显微镜、台式拉伸机、微欧姆计、压力计、温度控制器、热电偶读数器和调节器来实现。 该设备将使我们能够开发动手实验，我们将用这些实验来教授材料化学课程所需的原理。 材料化学课程以互动形式授课，每班 15 个小组，每组 4 名学生。 每周两次 2 小时的互动课程分为多个模块。 每个模块都以教师介绍概念/原则开始。 该演示采用讲师迷你讲座的形式，或演示的形式，“实时”或计算机生成，或两者的某种组合。 然后，学生将获得一个举例说明刚刚涵盖的原则的“团队问题”，或者提供该原则实际应用的实践经验。 问题或实践练习应作为一个团队完成，每个成员负责向其团队中的其他人教学或学习。 在两个小时的会议中，涵盖了其中两个或三个模块。 该课程在多媒体室教授，该室配有一台计算机，可供四名学生组成的团队教学，并且能够将计算机上的信息投影到屏幕上。 计算机用于访问万维网（WWW）、运行多媒体软件以及解决简单的问题。