Equipment for Undergraduate Instruction: "Engineering Uncovered"

本项目将为1991年秋季开始的一年级电子工程与计算机科学（EECS）课程的探索实验室配备设备。人们相信，这些新生可以通过研究已经“开放”供观看和测试的设备和装置学到很多东西，并受到激励。该实验室目前拥有最先进的通信、计算和测量设备，如：电话；无线电和电视接收机；录像机和CD播放机；一种用于瞬间相机的超声波聚焦系统以及光纤通信链路。廉价的商业多实验电子套件也可用。这笔拨款提供了研究这些系统性能所需的设备，以及一些专门的独一无二的设置。该课程以模块化的方式构建，以允许其他教师和其他学校在EECS中使用该课程，并在其他工程领域进行更改。特别是，预计该课程将在美国国家科学基金会联盟（“综合：美国国家科学基金会工程教育联盟”）的所有八所学校进行测试——加州大学伯克利分校、加州理工学院（圣路易斯奥比斯波分校）、康奈尔大学、汉普顿大学、爱荷华州立大学、南方大学、斯坦福大学和塔斯基吉学院。

Equipment for Undergraduate Instruction: "Engineering Uncovered" This project will outfit an exploratory laboratory in a freshman electrical engineering and computer sciences (EECS) course begun in Fall 1991. It is believed that these freshmen can learn much and be motivated by studying equipment and devices that have been "opened up" for viewing and testing. The lab presently contains pieces of state-of-the-art communications, computing, and measuring equipment, such as: telephones; radio and television receivers; VCR and CD players; an ultrasonic focusing system designed for an instant camera; and fiber optic communication links. Inexpensive commercial multi-experiment electronic kits are also available. This grant provides the equipment needed to study the performance of these systems, together with several specialized one-of-a-kind setups. The course of which the lab is a part was constructed in a modular fashion to permit its being used in EECS by other instructors and at other schools, and, with changes, in other fields of engineering. In particular, it is expected that the course will be tested in all eight schools of the NSF coalition ("Synthesis: The NSF Engineering Education Coalition") -- Cal (Berkeley), Cal Poly (San Luis Obispo), Cornell, Hampton, Iowa State, Southern University, Stanford, and Tuskegee Institute.