Introducing Polymer Science Across the Chemistry Curriculum

在化学课程中引入高分子科学

• 批准号: 9980948
• 负责人: H. Darrell Iler
• 金额: $ 1.66万
• 依托单位: Eastern Mennonite University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-03-01 至 2002-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9980948&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Introducing; Polymer; Science; Across; Chemistry

Chemistry (12)Polymer science and other materials related disciplines represent important areas of work and academic research for chemistry graduates. Also, due to their ubiquitous nature, even within fields where polymers are not the principal focus, an understanding of their chemistry, structure and properties is often important. Yet, many small college and university chemistry programs, lack the student numbers and resources to justify a course dedicated to polymer chemistry. The goal for this project is to establish a polymer emphasis across the chemistry curriculum that would provide students an appropriate knowledge base and experience for future work with polymer materials in commercial or academic settings. Based upon the professional backgrounds and experiences of the investigators as well as discussions with past NSF-ILI project investigators who have developed similar projects, it was decided that an effective approach for accomplishing this goal is through the adoption of a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) into the laboratory program. A variety of polymers related laboratory experiments using DSC is designed and adapted into freshmen through senior level chemistry courses. The implementation plan provides chemistry students the opportunity for introductory to advanced level study of polymer topics relating to structure, synthesis and physical properties. The acquisition of a DSC also permits the opportunity for more significant student contributions to original research. Non-chemistry science majors are also expected to be impacted by this project through laboratory exercises designed for the General and Organic Chemistry courses. The DSC also offers an additional tool for the illustration and study of fundamental chemical concepts, such as, enthalpy, heat capacity, phase transitions and kinetics at all levels of the chemistry program.

化学（12）聚合物科学和其他材料相关学科代表着重要的工作领域和化学毕业生的学术研究。同样，由于其无处不在的性质，即使在聚合物不是主要重点的领域，对它们的化学，结构和特性的理解通常也很重要。然而，许多小型大学和大学化学计划缺乏学生人数和资源来证明专门用于聚合物化学的课程。该项目的目的是在化学课程中建立聚合物的重点，这将为学生提供适当的知识库和经验，以在商业或学术环境中使用聚合物材料的未来工作。基于研究人员的专业背景和经验以及与过去开发类似项目的NSF-ILI项目调查人员的讨论，决定实现这一目标的有效方法是通过采用差分扫描卡（DSC）进入实验室计划。使用DSC的各种聚合物相关的实验室实验，并通过高级化学课程设计并适应新生。实施计划为化学学生提供了与结构，合成和物理特性有关的高级级别研究介绍的机会。 DSC的获取还允许机会为原始研究做出更重要的学生贡献。预计非化学科学专业的专业人士也将通过为通用和有机化学课程设计的实验室练习受到该项目的影响。 DSC还提供了一个额外的工具，用于插图和研究基本化学概念，例如化学计划的各个级别的焓，热容量，相变和动力学。