Collaborative Signal Processing Education on the Internet

在承担大型和详细的项目时，公司经常在广泛的地区为员工组队。目前，这些企业使用租用的模拟和数字通信线路，随着“信息高速公路”成为现实，它们无疑将转向计算机网络。从教育学的角度来看，这种现代的团队合作方法要求教育工作者在他们的毕业生中培养这一新现实所需的技能。这些技能包括在一个更大的分布式团队中识别专业知识和兴趣，以有意义的方式划分任务，跨高速网络集成设计，对照规范验证性能，以及编写和编写全面的最终报告。如果没有这些技能，我们的学生在面对目前全球市场上普遍存在的更廉价、更经典培训的工程人才时，将面临竞争劣势。为了应对这种对工程教育的挑战，本项目设计并实现了利用互联网进行团队学习和团队教学。主要研究人员是熟悉的教学和研究人员，专门从事数字信号处理。该项目以信号处理课程为特色，非常强调分布式实验。用于支持这些新课程的设备位于参与该项目的每所大学，并将形成一个大型的联网多媒体实验室。这些单独的实验室支持音频和视频传输，这是促进学生在互联网上实时互动所必需的。正在开发相关的实验和学习辅助材料，并将通过标准的互联网服务和开发由调查人员编写的多媒体教科书，以电子方式传播。

Companies frequently team their employees over widespread regions when undertaking large and detailed projects. At present, these enterprises use leased analog and digital communication lines and will no doubt switch to computer networks as the "Information Superhighway" becomes a reality. From a pedagogical point of view, this modern approach to teaming requires that educators develop in their graduates the skills required for this new reality. These skills include, among others, identifying expertise and interest within a larger distributed group, segmenting tasks in a meaningful fashion, integrating designs across a high-speed network, verifying performance against specifications, and compiling and writing a comprehensive final report. Without these skills, our students face a competitive disadvantage when confronted with cheaper, more classically trained engineering talent now prevalent in the global marketplace. To confront this challenge to engineering education, this project has designed and implemented team learning and team teaching using the Internet. The principal investigators are well-acquainted teaching and research faculty who specialize in digital signal processing. The project features signal processing courses with a heavy emphasis on distributed experimentation. The equipment used to support these new courses is located at each university involved in the project and will form a large connected multimedia laboratory. These individual laboratories support audio and video transmission necessary for facilitating real-time student interaction over the Internet. Relevant experiments and learning aides are being developed and will be disseminated electronically through standard Internet services and through the development of a multimedia textbook authored by the investigators.