RET Site in Engineering and Computer Science: Digital Signal Processing in Radio Astronomy

工程和计算机科学中的 RET 站点：射电天文学中的数字信号处理

• 批准号: 1611114
• 负责人: Natalia Schmid
• 金额: $ 57.78万
• 依托单位: West Virginia University Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1611114&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RET; Site; Engineering; Computer; Science

This Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering and Computer Science Site, entitled Digital Signal Processing in Radio Astronomy (DSPIRA) at West Virginia University (WVU) Lane Department of Computer Sciences and Electrical Engineering, the WVU Center for Gravitational Waves and Cosmology, and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, (NRAO) in Green Bank, WV, will expose high school STEM teachers from West Virginia school districts, to hands-on research experiences in the engineering method, via involvement in the research, design, development, and prototyping of digital signal processing (DSP) techniques and applications targeted for the next generation of radio telescopes. Radio Astronomy is undergoing a revolution as major new telescopes come on line. This next generation of telescopes requires exceptionally sophisticated signal processing algorithms running in high throughput, heterogeneous computing environments. Implementation of these algorithms and hardware is pushing the state of the art of current DSP techniques. Advanced DSP algorithms running in commodity devices are a fundamental part of modern life. The signal processing techniques being developed here are also becoming vital across a wide range of areas, including vision-based navigation, remote sensing, robotics, mechatronics, computerized tomography, biomedical engineering, radar and sonar, and signal processing for security. The experiences gained by the teachers will give them, and through them their own students, insight into the design, development, and implementation of such devices. DSPIRA addresses a confluence of three needs: an industry need for greater public understanding of a widely used technology; science and industry's need to have cross-curricular problem solvers; and the K-12 world's need to integrate engineering principles into their new science standards. Over a three-year period this RET Site will offer an intensive six week summer research program and academic year follow-up to a total of 30 STEM high school teachers who will join research teams led by engineers at WVU and NRAO who will provide the RET teachers the opportunity to make meaningful contributions, with authentic involvement, in these engineering research areas. With the recent advances in open source Software Defined Radio (SDR) tools, teachers will be able to learn core concepts and explore implementation strategies in an extremely accessible software/hardware environment (a laptop and RTL-SDR device running GNU Radio software) and take these back to their institutions. The research experience will also include RET teachers working with project staff to develop classroom projects that involve an entire classroom of students in DSP activities. in addition to dissemination of the results of RET participants' research projects, through poster sessions and national conferences such as NSTA and ASEE, the PIs will share all educational and research material developed over the period of this project both in state and nationally through the Teach Engineering Digital Library.

本研究经验的教师（RET）在工程和计算机科学网站，题为数字信号处理在射电天文学（DSPIRA）在西弗吉尼亚大学（WVU）巷计算机科学和电气工程系，WVU中心引力波和宇宙学，和国家射电天文台，（NRAO）在绿色银行，西弗吉尼亚州，将暴露来自西弗吉尼亚州学区的高中STEM教师，通过参与研究，设计，开发，数字信号处理（DSP）技术和应用的原型，针对下一代射电望远镜。 射电天文学正在经历一场革命，因为主要的新望远镜即将上线。下一代望远镜需要在高吞吐量、异构计算环境中运行非常复杂的信号处理算法。这些算法和硬件的实现推动了当前DSP技术的发展。 在商用设备中运行的高级DSP算法是现代生活的基本组成部分。这里正在开发的信号处理技术在广泛的领域也变得至关重要，包括基于视觉的导航，遥感，机器人，机电一体化，计算机断层扫描，生物医学工程，雷达和声纳以及安全信号处理。 教师所获得的经验将使他们，并通过他们自己的学生，深入了解这些设备的设计，开发和实施。DSPIRA解决了三个需求的融合：行业需要更好地了解广泛使用的技术;科学和行业需要有跨课程的问题解决者;以及K-12世界需要将工程原理整合到他们的新科学标准中。 在为期三年的时间里，这个RET网站将提供为期六周的暑期密集研究计划和学年跟进，共有30名STEM高中教师将加入由WVU和NRAO工程师领导的研究团队，他们将为RET教师提供机会，在这些工程研究领域做出有意义的贡献。随着开源软件定义无线电（SDR）工具的最新进展，教师将能够在一个非常容易访问的软件/硬件环境（运行GNU Radio软件的笔记本电脑和RTL-SDR设备）中学习核心概念并探索实施策略，并将这些带回他们的机构。研究经验还将包括RET教师与项目工作人员合作开发课堂项目，涉及整个课堂的学生在DSP活动。 除了通过海报展示会和国家科学技术协会（NSTA）和美国工程师学会（ASEE）等全国性会议传播可再生能源技术参与者的研究项目成果外，项目研究员还将通过教学工程数字图书馆在州和全国范围内共享该项目期间开发的所有教育和研究材料。