Integration of Wireless Technologies into an Undergraduate Networks Exploration Laboratory

计算机科学(31)这个项目的主要目标是推进无线计算机网络技术与本科课程的整合，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，该项目有以下目标：-通过安装、故障排除和管理无线组件的实践经验，让本科生扎实地了解无线技术的基础知识。-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健全和经过验证的实验室经验来演示无线技术。-向学生演示有线和无线网络技术在传统办公环境以外的其他领域的应用。该项目使用伍斯特理工学院开发的网络软件、山姆·休斯顿州立大学开发的客户端-服务器系统、三一学院的防火墙设置、伊利诺伊州立大学和北卡罗来纳州A&A；T开发的无线技术，使用无线技术扩展现有的探索性、动手网络实验室。这些技术在实验室中以三管齐下的方式进行整合和探索：1.利用使用无线技术增强的异类局域网的闭门实验室会议。本科生研究无线技术在制造业环境中的应用，在这些环境中，有线接入可能不可行。本科生发展项目强调资源的稀缺性、简洁性和嵌入式应用的影响。该项目利用了从外部来源改编的示范材料，以及对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.