Integration of Wireless Technologies into an Undergraduate Networks Exploration Laboratory

计算机科学（31）本项目的主要目标是推进无线计算机网络技术融入本科课程，提高本科计算机科学和信息系统专业的教育经验，就业机会和理论深度。为了实现这一目标，本项目有以下目标：- 通过在安装、故障排除和管理无线组件方面的实践经验，为本科生提供对无线技术基础的扎实理解。- 提供开发需要严格遵守最低协议的应用程序的经验。- 利用本地和其他地方开发的现有可靠和经过验证的实验室经验来演示无线技术。- 向学生示范网路科技在传统办公室环境以外的应用，包括有线及无线网路科技。本计画利用伍斯特理工学院所开发的网路软体、山姆休斯顿州立大学所开发的客户端-伺服器系统、Trinity学院所建立的防火墙、伊利诺州州立大学及北卡罗来纳州AT所开发的无线网路科技，以无线科技扩充现有的探索性、实际操作的网路实验室。这些技术在实验室中以三管齐下的方法进行了整合和探索：1。封闭的实验室会议利用异构局域网增强无线技术。本科研究无线技术在有线接入可能不可行的制造环境中的应用。本科生发展项目强调资源的稀缺性，简洁性的需要和嵌入式应用的影响。该项目利用从外部来源改编的示例性材料以及从现有实验室开发的材料的改编和整合。

Computer Science (31)The primary goals of this project are to advance the integration of wireless computer networking technologies into the undergraduate curriculum, to improve the educational experience, employment possibilities, and theoretical depth of undergraduate computer science and information systems majors.In order to achieve this goal, this project has the following objectives: - Provide undergraduate students with a solid appreciation of the fundamentals of wireless technologies through hands-on experience in installing, troubleshooting, and administering wireless components. - Provide experience developing applications that require a strict adherence to minimal protocols. - Leverage existing sound and proven laboratory experiences developed locally and elsewhere to demonstrate wireless technologies. - Demonstrate to the students applications of networking technologies, wired and wireless, in areas other than a traditional office environment.Using the webware developed at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, the client-server systems developed by Sam Houston State University, the firewall setup from Trinity College, the wireless technologies developed at Illinois State University and North Carolina A&T, this project augments an existing exploratory, hands-on networking laboratory with wireless technology. These technologies are incorporated and explored in the laboratory in a three-pronged approach:1. Closed laboratory sessions utilizing a heterogeneous local area network augmented with wireless technologies.2. Undergraduate research into the application of wireless technology in manufacturing environments where wired access may not be feasible.3. Undergraduate development projects emphasizing the scarcity of resources, the need for brevity and the implications of embedded type applications.This project utilizes exemplary material adapted from outside sources as well as adaptation and integration of materials developed from the existing laboratories.