A Communication System Prototyping Laboratory for Electricaland Computer Engineering Curriculum Integration

通信应用的多样性和它们所依赖的系统级技术的范围为开发项目提供了丰富的机会，使学生能够应用和集成从整个课程中获得的知识，同时开发对工程工作场所至关重要的CAD、原型和测试经验的范围。通过这个项目，通信系统原型实验室(CSPL)提供了一个全课程的实验室资源，通过基于通信的多学科设计经验，整合初级和高级必修课和选修课。CSPL组织通过使用由原型光纤主干连接的单个教学实验室中的多个“微实验室”来模拟企业研发实验室的应用驱动的跨学科环境。作为CSPL组织的基础，光波微实验室支持学生基于光纤网络原型的光波通信应用程序的设计活动；学生光电接口和光学原型的光子原型中心；用于元件、传输介质和系统级评估的光波测试测量中心；以及光子参考库。有了其他微实验室的基本基础设施，该项目专门满足了光波微实验室的仪器需求。

The diversity of communication applications and the spectrum of system-level technologies upon which they rely provide a rich set of opportunities to develop projects allowing students to apply and integrate knowledge obtained from courses across the curriculum while simultaneously developing the spectrum of CAD, prototyping, and testing experiences critical to the engineering workplace. Through this project, a Communication System Prototyping Laboratory (CSPL) provides a curriculum-wide laboratory resource for integration of junior- and senior-level required and elective topics through multidisciplinary communication-based design experiences. The CSPL organization emulates the application-driven interdisciplinary environment of a corporate research and development laboratory through use of multiple "microlabs" within a single instructional lab linked by a prototype fiber optic backbone. As the foundation of the CSPL organization, the Lightwave Microlab supports student design activities based on lightwave communication applications with a Prototype Fiber Network; a Photonic Prototyping Center for student optoelectronic interfacing and optical prototyping; a Lightwave Test Measurement Center for component, transmission medium, and system-level evaluation; and a Photonic Reference Library. With basic infrastructure for other microlabs in place, this project specifically addresses the instrumentation needs of the Lightwave Microlab.