Evolvable wireless laboratory design and implementation for enhancing undergraduate wireless engineering education

计算机科学（31）在这个项目中的主要交付成果是一个易于复制的模型的演进，低成本的软件定义无线电（SDR）为基础的无线通信和网络实验室和相关的教学和学习材料。 这些学习材料的目标受众是无线通信、移动的计算和无线传感器网络的本科生。本项目正在开发的无线实验室基于通用软件无线电外设（USRP）板，该板采用GNU软件无线电，一个自由软件工具包，用于构建软件无线电，旨在使代码尽可能接近天线，并将无线电硬件问题转化为软件问题。 该项目正在开发的基于实验室的资源包括用户手册和教学手册。 该项目正在对正在开发的材料进行试点测试，以显示它们在激励、吸引和提高学生学习和技能方面的有效性。该项目旨在通过混合规定的和开放式的实验室体验来改变无线通信教育，学生在实验室中使用有形信号、无线信道和通信系统，从而强化数学理论和仿真实例，通过建立工作系统来整合概念。本项目实验室成本低，便于携带，这使得正在编写的学习材料在整个工程教育界都可以使用，这些材料将在那里广泛传播。

Computer Science (31)The primary deliverable in this project is an easily replicable model of evolvable, low-cost Software Defined Radio (SDR)-based wireless communication and networking laboratories and associated teaching and learning materials. The target audiences for these learning materials are undergraduate students in wireless communication, mobile computing, and wireless sensor networks.The wireless laboratories being developed in this project are based on the Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) boards that employ GNU software radio, a free software toolkit for the building of software radios designed to get code as close to the antenna as possible and to turn radio hardware problems into software problems. Laboratory-based resources being developed in this project include user manuals and teaching manuals. The project is pilot-testing the materials being developed to show their effectiveness in motivating, engaging, and enhancing student learning and skills.The project intends to transform education in wireless communication by blending prescribed and open-ended lab experiences where students work with tangible signals, wireless channels, and communication systems, thereby reinforcing mathematical theories and simulation examples and integrating concepts by building working systems.The laboratories in this project are low cost and portable, which makes the learning materials being developed accessible throughout the engineering education community, where the materials will be disseminated broadly.