Interactive Software for Self-Paced Instruction on Laboratory Instrumentation and Computerized Data Acquisition

正在开发关于现代电子仪器和计算机化数据采集的自定进度课程的课件。本课程面向所有工程学科的低年级学生，作为其学科导向的实验室课程的入门课程。所有的课程教学都是基于计算机的；学生在计算机程序的指导下，单独使用实验室设备。提供了一个模板库，允许教师根据他们实验室中可用的特定硬件来调整课件。开发的第一阶段已经完成，所产生的课件已经成功地用于斯坦福大学的两门课程。该项目扩大了现有课件的覆盖范围，改进了课件，特别是增加了计算机对学生的更直接测试，并开发了针对斯坦福实验室目前未使用的硬件的模板库。最后，将举办一次研讨会，向其他大学的工程学教师介绍该课件，并发展一支合作者团队，以便进一步完善。

Courseware is being developed for a self-paced course on modern electronic instrumentation and computerized data acquisition. This course is aimed at lower division students from all engineering disciplines as a lead-in to their discipline oriented laboratory courses. All of the course instruction is computer-based; students work individually with laboratory equipment, guided by the computer program. A library of modules is supplied allowing faculty to adapt the courseware to the specific hardware available in their laboratories. The first phase of the development is already complete and the resulting courseware has been successful used in two courses at Stanford. This project extends the coverage of the existing courseware, refines the courseware adding, in particular, more direct testing of the student by the computer, and develops the library of modules specific to hardware not presently used in Stanford laboratories. Finally, a workshop is to be held to introduce the courseware to engineering faculty at other universities and to develop a team of collaborators for further refinements.