Teleconferenced Workstations: Improving Experimentation in Undergraduate Education

宾夕法尼亚大学开发的一个名为“远程会议工作站”的研究平台，扩展了宾夕法尼亚大学电信与系统专业的前沿课程。“远程会议工作站”是一种独特的通信模式，目前被连接宾夕法尼亚大学、麻省理工学院、IBM研究所和贝尔通信研究所的AURORA千兆试验台成员所使用。试验台服务提供包括对多媒体和电话会议的支持。我们将在名为“分布式和实时系统”的新课程以及现有的名为“电信网络”的课程中使用和试验这项技术。这些课程不仅讨论了技术背后的原理，而且有一个精心构建的实验室组件，其中包括将讲座中涵盖的概念应用于宾夕法尼亚大学原型系统组件的项目。这不仅将增加我们目前的电信和系统课程，而且将作为一个极好的工具来评估远程会议工作站环境的有效性。

9451190 Lee A research platform developed at the University of Pennsylvania, "teleconferenced workstations", expands a cutting-edge curriculum in Telecommunications and Systems at Penn. "Teleconferenced workstations" are a unique mode of communication currently being used by members of the AURORA Gigabit Testbed, which connects Penn, MIT, IBM Research, and Bell Communications Research. The test bed service provision includes support for multimedia and Teleconferencing. We will use and experiment with this technology as part of a new course entitled "Distributed and Real-time Systems", as well as in an existing course entitled "Telecommunications networks". The courses not only discuss the principles behind the technology, but have a carefully constructed laboratory component with projects that apply the concepts covered in lectures to components of the prototyped system at Penn. This will not only augment our current curriculum in Telecommunications and Systems, but will serve as an excellent vehicle to evaluate the effectiveness of the teleconferenced workstation environment.