Collaborative Signal Processing Education on the Internet

在进行大型和详细的项目时，公司经常将员工分散在广泛的地区。目前，这些企业使用租用的模拟和数字通信线路，毫无疑问，随着“信息高速公路”成为现实，它们将转向计算机网络。从教学的角度来看，这种现代的团队合作方式要求教育者培养毕业生适应这种新现实所需的技能。这些技能包括，在更大的分布式组中识别专业知识和兴趣，以有意义的方式划分任务，跨高速网络集成设计，根据规范验证性能，以及编写和编写全面的最终报告。如果没有这些技能，我们的学生在面对目前全球市场上普遍存在的更便宜、更传统的工程人才时，将处于竞争劣势。为了应对这一挑战，本项目设计并实施了基于互联网的团队学习和团队教学。主要研究人员都是在数字信号处理领域有着丰富经验的教学和科研人员。该项目以信号处理课程为特色，着重强调分布式实验。用于支持这些新课程的设备位于参与该项目的每个大学，并将形成一个大型连接的多媒体实验室。这些独立的实验室支持音频和视频传输，以促进学生在互联网上的实时互动。正在开发有关的实验和学习辅助工具，并将通过标准的因特网服务和通过编写由研究人员编写的多媒体教科书以电子方式传播。

Companies frequently team their employees over widespread regions when undertaking large and detailed projects. At present, these enterprises use leased analog and digital communication lines and will no doubt switch to computer networks as the "Information Superhighway" becomes a reality. From a pedagogical point of view, this modern approach to teaming requires that educators develop in their graduates the skills required for this new reality. These skills include, among others, identifying expertise and interest within a larger distributed group, segmenting tasks in a meaningful fashion, integrating designs across a high-speed network, verifying performance against specifications, and compiling and writing a comprehensive final report. Without these skills, our students face a competitive disadvantage when confronted with cheaper, more classically trained engineering talent now prevalent in the global marketplace. To confront this challenge to engineering education, this project has designed and implemented team learning and team teaching using the Internet. The principal investigators are well-acquainted teaching and research faculty who specialize in digital signal processing. The project features signal processing courses with a heavy emphasis on distributed experimentation. The equipment used to support these new courses is located at each university involved in the project and will form a large connected multimedia laboratory. These individual laboratories support audio and video transmission necessary for facilitating real-time student interaction over the Internet. Relevant experiments and learning aides are being developed and will be disseminated electronically through standard Internet services and through the development of a multimedia textbook authored by the investigators.