Networked Instructional Instrumentation Facility to Enhance Undergraduate Electronics Throughout the Nation

通过该项目，将为全国各地的大量理工科本科生提供独特的教学实验室设施。伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校的网络教学仪器设施允许学生通过互联网访问一个真实的实验室，在那里可以进行本科电子实验室实验。在中心是测量服务器，这是UIC开发的一种硬件和软件设施，以SPICE网表的形式响应测量请求，目前许多本科课程都使用这种网表来进行电路仿真。这一独特的设施允许学生将模拟结果与设备和电路库中的实际测量结果进行比较，还可以对难以模拟的电路进行实验。学生可以在几秒钟内看到结果，并可以根据他们对结果的解释并在UIC和其他使用该设施的大学制作的教学材料的指导下提交新的测量请求。该项目包括一项重大的外联工作，以协助全国各地的科学和工程教员利用该设施编写教学材料。

Through the project, a unique instructional laboratory facility will be made available to a large number of undergraduate science and engineering students across the nation. The Networked Instructional Instrumentation Facility at the University of Illinois at Chicago allows students to access, via the Internet, a real laboratory in which undergraduate electronics laboratory experiments may be performed. At the hub is a measurement server, a hardware and software facility developed at UIC, that responds to measurement requests in the form of SPICE netlists, currently used in many undergraduate courses for circuit simulation. This unique facility allows the student to compare simulated results with actual measurements on a library of devices and circuits and also to perform experiments on circuits that are difficult to simulate. Students see the results within a few seconds and can submit new measurement requests based upon their interpretation of the results and under the guidance of instructional materials produced at UIC and at other universities that use the facility. The project includes a major outreach effort to assist science and engineering instructors across the country in the preparation of instructional materials utilizing the facility.