Developing Computer-Based Laboratory Instruments in a New Undergraduate Electrical Engineering Program

工程-电气（55）在本科电气工程实验室进行的许多测量可以用通用实验室设备进行，但这种手动过程缓慢，繁琐，容易出错。 专业仪器存在于许多测量任务中，但专业仪器本科实验室的费用可能难以证明。基于计算机的实验室仪器为这些专业仪器提供了一种低成本的替代品。 该项目的主题是将技术融入教育，它进一步发展现有的仪器;积极使本科生参与新仪器的设计和测试;将这些新仪器纳入本科课程;并以允许其他工程项目容易复制的形式创建和传播软件和硬件设计以及课程材料。 该项目采用了基于计算机的实验室仪器的概念，从研究实验室的教授约翰韦伯斯特在威斯康星州和研究实验室的健康和运动学系的得克萨斯大学泰勒（UT-泰勒），这是在UT-泰勒的电气工程本科课程部实施。

Engineering - Electrical (55)Many measurements made in undergraduate electrical engineering laboratories may be carried out with general purpose laboratory equipment, but this manual process is slow, tedious, and prone to error. Specialized instrumentation exists for many measurements tasks, but the expense of specialized instrumentation undergraduate laboratories may be difficult to justify. Computer-based laboratory instruments offer a low-cost alternative to such specialized instruments. This project, whose theme is integration of technology into education is further developing existing instruments; to actively bring undergraduate students into the design and testing of new instruments; to integrate these new instruments into the undergraduate curriculum; and to create and disseminate software and hardware designs and curriculum materials in a form permitting other engineering program to readily duplicate. The project adapts concepts of using computer-based laboratory instrumentation from the research laboratory of Prof. John Webster at the University of Wisconsin and the research laboratory of the Health and Kinesiology Department of the University of Texas at Tyler (UT-Tyler) which are implemented into the Department of Electrical Engineering undergraduate curriculum at the UT-Tyler.