Connecting an Undergraduate Electronics Laboratory to the Web and LAN for Automated Data Acquisition

模拟工具、计算机和互联网正在改变我们的教学方法和学生的学习方式。该项目将现有的测量设备，计算机和仿真软件，与新的电源，万用表和函数发生器集成在主要的本科电子实验室，允许仪器由计算机控制，并通过Web访问。使用LabVIEW环境和计算机网络，学生将在各种实验中自动模拟，测量和收集数据，并通过网络与团队成员和教师轻松共享数据。新的实验室将大量用于电气和计算机工程课程的九个不同的本科实验室课程。 通过使用LabVIEW的互联网组件，和现有的Win NT服务器，站将被配置为通过网络控制，因为我们调查远程实验室的经验，为非传统的学生，当地高中，大专预科工程的学生。这个项目超越了简单的自动化数据收集，而是将提供一个实验室课程序列，这是建立在学生的测量和整个课程的沟通技巧。具体来说，本实验室课程的目标是：（1）提高电子实验室的质量和能力，以支持电子电路和器件的关键测量，（2）提供有效分析和解释真实的数据的能力，以模拟和理论，（3）教授新的测量技术，包括数据采集概念，（4）通过集成的测量和通信网络促进团队项目，以及（5）能够远程访问最先进的电子测量设施，以使非传统的高中和工程预科学生受益。

Simulation tools, computers, and the Internet are transforming our instructional methods and the ways students learn. This project integrates existing measurement equipment, computers and simulation software, with new power supplies, multimeters, and function generators in the main undergraduate Electronics Laboratory allowing the instruments to be controlled by computer and accessed via the Web. Using the LabVIEW environment and computer network, students will simulate, measure, and collect data automatically in a wide variety of experiments and easily share data across the network with team members and instructors. The new laboratory will be heavily used in over nine different undergraduate laboratory courses in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Curricula. By using LabVIEW's Internet components, and existing Win NT server, the stations will be configured to be controlled through the Web as we investigate remote laboratory experiences for non-traditional students, local High Schools, and junior college pre-engineering students. This project goes beyond simply automating data collection, but rather will provide a laboratory course sequence, which builds on student's measurement and communication skills throughout the curriculum. Specifically, the goals of this laboratory curriculum are: (1) to improve the quality and the capability of the Electronics Laboratory in support of critical measurements on electronic circuits and devices, (2) to provide the capability to efficiently analyze and interpret real data against simulation and theory, (3) to teach new measurement techniques including data acquisition concepts, (4) to facilitate team projects with an integrated measurement and communication network, and (5) to enable remote access to state- of-the-art electronics measurement facilities to benefit non-traditional, high school and pre-engineering students.