Hardware Prototyping Capability for a Community Service Projects Course in Electrical and Computer Engineering

电气和计算机工程社区服务项目课程的硬件原型设计能力

• 批准号: 9650771
• 负责人: Edward Coyle
• 金额: $ 7.93万
• 依托单位: Purdue University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-06-15 至 1999-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9650771&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Hardware; Prototyping; Capability; Community; Service

In the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) program, Electrical and Computer Engineering students earn academic credit for long-term team projects that solve technology-based problems for local community service agencies. Each project team is a mix of sophomores, juniors, and seniors, and each student may participate in an EPICS project for up to 3 years. This structure provides the continuity required to carry out long-term engineering design projects that can have a significant impact on the community. The program is establishing a hardware prototyping facility. Its goal is to enable the student teams to fully implement and test their designs. The students thus experience all phases of an engineering project, from project-definition meetings with their community service agency partner, through system design, to construction and evaluation of a system prototype. After a prototype has proven its value to the community, funds raised from private sources are used to produce the systems deployed on a permanent basis. The five current EPICS projects and those to be added involve many technologies: computer networks, digital electronics, distributed databases, electromechanical systems, energy management systems, human-computer interfaces, power electronics, solar power, speech processing, and wireless communications. The equipment supports hardware prototyping efforts involving any combination of these technologies. The addition of this full-scale hardware prototyping capability is crucial to the continued development of the EPICS program. It enables the EPICS program to become an outstanding model of how community awareness, communication skills, teamwork, system design skills, and project management skills can be taught to undergraduates in engineering.

在社区服务工程项目（EPICS）计划中，电气和计算机工程专业的学生可以获得长期团队项目的学分，这些项目为当地社区服务机构解决基于技术的问题。每个项目团队都是由大学生，大三学生和大四学生组成的，每个学生可以参加EPICS项目长达3年。这种结构提供了执行可能对社区产生重大影响的长期工程设计项目所需的连续性。 该计划正在建立一个硬件原型设施。其目标是使学生团队能够全面实施和测试他们的设计。因此，学生体验工程项目的各个阶段，从与社区服务机构合作伙伴的项目定义会议，到系统设计，再到系统原型的构建和评估。在原型证明其对社区的价值后，从私人来源筹集的资金用于生产永久部署的系统。 当前的五个EPICS项目和即将增加的项目涉及许多技术：计算机网络、数字电子、分布式数据库、机电系统、能源管理系统、人机界面、电力电子、太阳能、语音处理和无线通信。该设备支持涉及这些技术的任何组合的硬件原型设计工作。 这种全尺寸硬件原型能力的增加对EPICS计划的持续发展至关重要。它使EPICS计划成为如何社区意识，沟通技巧，团队合作，系统设计技能和项目管理技能可以教工程本科生的杰出典范。