Equipment for Undergraduate Instruction: "Engineering Uncovered"

本科教学设备：“工程学的发现”这个项目将在1991年秋季开始的一年级电气工程和计算机科学(EECS)课程中配备一个探索性实验室。相信这些大一新生可以通过学习那些已经开放观看和测试的设备和装置来学到很多，并被激发出来。该实验室目前拥有最先进的通信、计算和测量设备，如：电话；无线电和电视接收器；VCR和CD播放机；为即时相机设计的超声波聚焦系统；以及光纤通信链路。也有廉价的商业多实验电子套件可供选择。这笔赠款提供了研究这些系统性能所需的设备，以及几个专门的独一无二的设置。实验室是课程的一部分，该课程是以模块化的方式构建的，以允许其他教师和其他学校在EECS中使用它，并在进行更改后用于其他工程领域。特别是，预计该课程将在NSF联盟(“综合：NSF工程教育联盟”)的所有八所学校--加州大学(伯克利)、加州理工大学(圣路易斯·奥比斯波)、康奈尔大学、汉普顿、爱荷华州立大学、南方大学、斯坦福大学和塔斯基吉学院进行测试。

Equipment for Undergraduate Instruction: "Engineering Uncovered" This project will outfit an exploratory laboratory in a freshman electrical engineering and computer sciences (EECS) course begun in Fall 1991. It is believed that these freshmen can learn much and be motivated by studying equipment and devices that have been "opened up" for viewing and testing. The lab presently contains pieces of state-of-the-art communications, computing, and measuring equipment, such as: telephones; radio and television receivers; VCR and CD players; an ultrasonic focusing system designed for an instant camera; and fiber optic communication links. Inexpensive commercial multi-experiment electronic kits are also available. This grant provides the equipment needed to study the performance of these systems, together with several specialized one-of-a-kind setups. The course of which the lab is a part was constructed in a modular fashion to permit its being used in EECS by other instructors and at other schools, and, with changes, in other fields of engineering. In particular, it is expected that the course will be tested in all eight schools of the NSF coalition ("Synthesis: The NSF Engineering Education Coalition") -- Cal (Berkeley), Cal Poly (San Luis Obispo), Cornell, Hampton, Iowa State, Southern University, Stanford, and Tuskegee Institute.