Laboratory course modules

NSF funded polymer science modular experiments are now available from Eli Pearce. There are 15 of these modules for use with an introductory polymer science course or for use with a separate beginning polymer laboratory course. 

For this study, a physical chemistry laboratory course at a large, Midwestern university was selected. The use of a three-hour laboratory period for student interaction with the DVD ensured sufficient time for students to explore, and gave us a naturalistic setting in which their interactions could be observed. The week before the laboratory, students were given a handout with a description of the module and a list of the major content divisions. Students were permitted to take notes and to use these notes on their assignment, which consisted of a series of questions over the material. 

The students undertaking this laboratory course will be given hands-on experience on the intricate concepts that was earlier restricted to mere reading of concepts. This approach will introduce the concept of categorizing the course content into different category of modules that includes demonstration, exercises, structured enquiry and open-ended projects. This practice will benefit the students to a great extent thereby promoting them to undertake capstone projects and research activities. 

Our project includes three major components. The first component is a learning community for first-year science majors, especially secondary teaching majors in the sciences and mathematics. The second component is a group of laboratory instructional modules developed for courses across biology, chemistry, and physics using a common piece of nanoscience instrumentation. The modules were an attempt to stress recent research in nanoscience rather than simply repeat other previously developed materials. The third component ineludes internships for upper level students (with a preference given to pre-serviee teaehers) involving module development. 

Virtual Substance can be used as supplemental homework assignments in the physical chemistry lecture course or as laboratory modules for a physical... 

Instrumentation. Two electron spin resonance spectrometers have been used in the course of the work. The Southampton instrument was built in the laboratory, using a Varian magnet, and operated at 3 cm. wavelength. It employed an Hon rectangular cavity and obtained high sensitivity by magnetic field modulation at 100 kc.p.s. with a crystal detector phase sensitive detection... 

Figure 19.5. In the course of developing the robotic platform ARCoSyn for fully automated synthesis and purification of compound arrays, a sample-oriented concept has been realized that subordinates sample functionality, thus avoiding complex transport processes between spatially separated individual functionalities. The central component is an industrial robot, which - in respect of flexibility (the gripper changing system for several centralized functions), work space (optimal utilization of available surface area, no need for a translation axis), precision, and loading capacity (option of using modules for both miniaturization and upscaling) - is adapted to the requirements of the laboratory automation concept.

The correct operation of the above described functional imits has been demonstrated in laboratory tests of individual TEG modules and TEG plant prototypes of tiie TEP-500 and AIT-500 types. The laboratory testing confirmed the validity of technical solutions selected m the process of the plants development, as well as a good agreement with RAO GAZPROM requirements on operation in arctic conditions of Russia Fig.5 and 6 present the TEP-500 and AIT-500 plants general view photographs made in the course of laboratory testing. 

In the Untied Kingdom, all administration procedures to pregnant mice require Home Office personal and project licenses. Embryo culture beyond midgestation (day 9 in the mouse) and removal of tissues from embryos and fetuses also require Home Office permission. Licenses are granted only after attendance at a course on laboratory animal management and welfare (Home Office Training Modules 1-3). Readers from other countties should seek advice from the appropriate authorities. 

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