Collaborative Research: Portable Cyber-Laboratories: Virtual Instruments and Affordable Prototyping Kits to Enhance Learning and Improve Access to Electrical Engineering Education

协作研究：便携式网络实验室：虚拟仪器和经济实惠的原型套件可增强学习并改善电气工程教育的机会

• 批准号: 0942680
• 负责人: Jianchu Yao
• 金额: $ 8.81万
• 依托单位: East Carolina University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-01-01 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0942680&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Portable; Cyber; Laboratories

Engineering - Electrical (55) This project, a collaborative effort between Kansas State University and East Carolina University, is developing mobile hands-on learning experiences for electrical engineering concepts and formally assessing whether laboratories performed at home are effective supplements for traditional lecture and laboratory based courses. The portable laboratory is based on innovative virtual instruments on laptop and handheld computers interacting with custom, low-cost prototyping kits integrated with plug-and-play data acquisition units. The project team is developing an affordable, portable circuit prototyping capability, creating laboratory experiences (hands-on protocols and software interfaces) that enable students to use the kits in their preferred environment, developing lecture demonstrations with these prototyping kits, and integrating these lecture and laboratory modules into existing courses. The evaluation effort, which is being led by an independent consultant, is monitoring cognitive, affective, and psychomotor changes using surveys, concept inventories, performance on the FFundamentals in Engineering Exam, and direct observation in the laboratory. Project materials and results are being disseminated through website postings, conference presentations, and journal publications and through connections with National Instruments. Broader impacts include the dissemination of the materials and pedagogy, the potential of providing laboratory experiences outside of the laboratory, and the investigators' involvement in a special outreach program for junior high school girls.

工程-电气(55)这个项目是堪萨斯州立大学和东卡罗来纳大学的合作项目，正在开发电气工程概念的移动实践学习体验，并正式评估在家中进行的实验室是否有效地补充了传统的讲授和基于实验室的课程。便携式实验室基于笔记本电脑和掌上电脑上的创新虚拟仪器，与定制的低成本原型套件交互，集成了即插即用数据采集单元。项目团队正在开发负担得起的便携式电路原型制作功能，创建实验室体验(动手协议和软件界面)，使学生能够在他们喜欢的环境中使用套件，使用这些原型套件开发讲座演示，并将这些讲座和实验室模块整合到现有课程中。这项由独立顾问领导的评估工作正在使用调查、概念清单、工程基础考试成绩和实验室直接观察来监控认知、情感和精神运动的变化。项目材料和成果正在通过网站张贴、会议报告和期刊出版物以及通过与国家仪器公司的联系进行传播。更广泛的影响包括材料和教学方法的传播，在实验室之外提供实验室经验的可能性，以及调查人员参与针对初中女生的特别外联计划。