Improved Student Learning of Microprocessor Systems Through Hands-On and Online Experience

工程-电气（55）该项目致力于通过使用逻辑分析仪增加测量能力来提高学生在本科微处理器课程中的学习。 在本科微处理器课程目前的做法是有一个同伴实验室，学生可以编程微处理器和观察一些基本的功能，通过设备，如发光二极管和开关。 在实验室中增加逻辑分析仪，使学生能够比基本输入和输出设备更直接，更详细地测量和可视化微处理器的操作和功能。 为了评估额外的测量能力对学生学习的影响，正在进行一项研究，使用控制和治疗组设计以及定量和定性工具。 该项目的第二个组成部分是使蒙大拿州的农村和部落大学可以通过互联网远程使用带有逻辑分析仪的微处理器实验室。 远程实验室对学生学习的功效也正在使用控制和治疗组设计进行正式研究。 该项目包括对部落学院的外联工作，以提高对工程学的认识，并鼓励这些机构采用远程实验室。 研究结果正在通过会议和期刊出版物传播。

Engineering - Electrical (55)This project endeavors to improve student learning in undergraduate microprocessor courses by adding a measurement capability through the use of logic analyzers. The current practice in undergraduate microprocessor courses is to have a companion laboratory in which students can program microprocessors and observe some basic functionality through devices such as light emitting diodes and switches. The addition of a logic analyzer to the laboratory allows students to measure and visualize the operation and functionality of the microprocessor more directly and in more detail than basic input and output devices allow. In order to assess the impact of the additional measurement capability on student learning a study is being conducted using a control and treatment group design and both quantitative and qualitative instruments. The second component of the project involves making the microprocessor laboratory with the logic analyzers available remotely over the internet to rural and tribal colleges in the state of Montana. The efficacy of the remote laboratory with respect to student learning is also being formally studied using a control and treatment group design. The project includes outreach efforts to tribal colleges in order to increase awareness of engineering and to encourage these institutions to adopt the remote laboratory. Results of the studies are being disseminated through conference and journal publications.