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4. Engaging Students With Interdisciplinary and Project-Based Laboratories
4. Engaging Students With Interdisciplinary and Project-Based Laboratories
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The committee recommends that project-based laboratories with discovery components replace traditional scripted "cookbook" laboratories to develop the capacity of students to tackle increasingly challenging projects with greater independence. Laboratories can illustrate and build on the concepts covered in the classroom.
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The goal of the laboratory course, called ID Lab, is to help students understand the research approach in science ancl the natural relationship between biology ancl other scientific clisciplines. Case Study #6 illustrates one way to strengthen undergraduate education by making learning a highly active experience from the first clay of college.
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· Newtonian mechanics muscles as force actuators, moments created by muscles, free body diagram analysis within the context of human joint mechanics, ground reaction forces, mechanics of gait-running, and standing balance, calculation of the center of pressure and center of reaction,
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, electromyograms (EMG) , body temperature, control of body temperature, heat loss from the body, blood pressure measurement, blood flow and volume measurements, noninvasive blood-gas sensors, optical microscopy, cell adhesion, optical sources and sensors, lung volume, heart sounds, drug delivery devices, surgical instruments, or electroshock protection.
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82 BIO2010 absorption of x-rays, x-ray filters, beam size, radiographic image, production of x-rays, computed tomography, ultrasound, MRI, nuclear imaging, single-photon emission computed tomography, or positron emission tomography.
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INTERDISCIPLINARYAND PROJECT-BASED LABORATORIES 83 A Proposed Engineering-for-Life-Scientists Laboratory One way to engage students with engineering concepts important to biology is through an "engineering-for-life-scientist" laboratory. This idea is presented here because it was suggested as an alternative to a physics lab by the panel on physics and engineering.
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Circuit analysis. · Osmotic pressure versus hydrostatic pressure; building a cell; pressure measurements; analysis of systems with varying pore sizes and/or sizes of charged particles.
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· Photophysics of light absorption and emission, competing deactivation pathways; kinetic analysis. Chemistry Laboratory Chemistry laboratory courses frequently focus on teaching specific research techniques.
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, founded at Davidson College and now comprising more than 35 faculty members around the country, has made DNA arrays accessible to undergraduates for original experiments in which the expression levels of many genes are monitored for pairs of distinctive biological states (e.g., growth in a rich versus a minimal medium)
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