Instrumentation for an Introductory Electronics Course

这个项目将为理工科预科学生开设一年级的电子入门课程。本课程将侧重于模拟技术，并偏向于科学领域的实用电子学。我们将使用计算机自动数据采集和控制系统作为教学工具。每个实验站将包括一个通过I/O板和GPIB DMM连接到运行我们在LabVIEW中编写的教学软件的计算机工作站的原型板。学生将构建电路并使用LabVIEW软件对其进行探索、测试和控制。基于计算机的数据采集和控制被用作电子学教学的工具，而不是课程本身的重点。通过使用以计算机为基础的教学，学生们将从传统电子学课程中解脱出来，能够集中精力学习材料。此外，我们发现通过将LabVIEW集成到这门电子课程中，我们正在开辟新的教学方法。这门微积分前的电子学课程是为大多数新生提供的。这种方法为学生提供了积极的实验室经验，并在他们职业生涯的早期与常规教师进行一对一的接触。这将使他们开始获得早期的研究经验，并为工业实习做好更好的准备。

This project will create a first-year introductory electronics course for science and pre-engineering students. The course will concentrate on analog techniques, with a slant towards practical electronics for the sciences. We will use computer-automated data acquisition and control systems as instructional tools. Each lab station will include a protoboard interfaced through an I/O board and a GPIB DMM to a computer workstation running instructional software that we have written in LabVIEW. The students will build the circuits and use LabVIEW software to explore, test and control them. Computer-based data acquisition and control are used as tools to teach electronics, not as the focus of the course itself. Through the use of computer-based instruction, the students will be freed of much of the tedium associated with traditional electronics courses and will be able to focus on the material. In addition, we find that by integrating LabVIEW into this electronics course, we are opening up new approaches to teaching the material. This pre-calculus electronics course is offered it at a level that makes it available to most incoming students. This approach provides students with a positive laboratory experience and one-on-one contact with regular faculty members early in their career. This will get them started towards early research experience and better prepare them for industrial internships.