SystemWare: Retooling Systems Instruction in Electrical Engineering

SystemWare：电气工程中的重组系统指令

• 批准号: 0736900
• 负责人: Thomas Fuja
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: University of Notre Dame
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-03-15 至 2010-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0736900&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SystemWare; Retooling; Systems; Instruction; Electrical

Engineering - Electrical (55)The project is creating a new approach for teaching systems engineering within the electrical engineering (EE) curriculum. The approach makes use of a hardware/software platform and accompanying curricular innovations to bring a more engaged, hands-on, exploratory focus to what is probably the most convention-bound component of a typical undergraduate electrical engineering education. Unlike previous attempts to create a less abstract and more engaging systems engineering curriculum, which focused almost entirely on software tools (e.g., MATLAB), the proposed project is creating a hardware/software platform and using that platform to vertically integrate key systems concepts across the undergraduate curriculum. The platform is letting students explore systems applications using a variety of hardware devices such as signal generators, filters, A/D and D/A converters, sensors, and a microprocessor. The platform contains an interface to a student's MP-3 player and cell phone to bring home the relevance of the systems perspective to modern technology. To allow students to see the signals they are generating and manipulating, the platform includes a suite of visualization software. The project is being evaluated using an assortment of tools including an established signals and systems concept inventory along with the analysis of student products and enrollments numbers. The investigators are disseminating their results by posting their material on a website, by publication and presentation in engineering education venues, and through the investigators connection with the signals and systems concept inventory community. Broader impacts include the dissemination of the material, the focus on Hispanic students, and the outreach effort to high school students.

工程-电气（55）该项目正在为电气工程（EE）课程中的系统工程教学创造一种新的方法。 该方法利用硬件/软件平台和伴随的课程创新，为典型的本科电气工程教育中最受传统约束的组成部分带来更多参与，动手，探索性的关注。 不像以前试图创建一个不那么抽象和更吸引人的系统工程课程，它几乎完全集中在软件工具（例如，MATLAB），拟议的项目是创建一个硬件/软件平台，并使用该平台垂直整合整个本科课程的关键系统概念。该平台允许学生使用各种硬件设备探索系统应用，如信号发生器，滤波器，A/D和D/A转换器，传感器和微处理器。该平台包含一个接口，学生的MP-3播放器和手机带回家的相关性系统的角度来看，现代技术。 为了让学生看到他们正在生成和操作的信号，该平台包括一套可视化软件。 该项目正在使用各种工具进行评估，包括一个既定的信号和系统概念库存沿着与学生产品和入学人数的分析。 调查人员正在通过在网站上发布材料、在工程教育场所出版和演示以及通过调查人员与信号和系统概念清单社区的联系来传播他们的结果。 更广泛的影响包括材料的传播，对西班牙裔学生的关注，以及对高中生的推广工作。