Microcontroller/Mechatronics Education of Non-Electrical Engineering Students

工程-机械（56）该项目正在改编格鲁吉亚理工学院（GIT）和俄亥俄州州立大学（OSU）成功开发的机电一体化/微控制器课程的教育材料、概念和方法。这些课程的组成部分关于机电一体化系统的制造应用，控制和执行器正在适应南卡罗来纳州行业的具体情况。调整后的课程内容将以更新和增强的实验室设备/程序、高级编程和模拟软件以及最先进的教学/培训方法的形式纳入工程课程。机电一体化/微控制器教学实验室配备了新的16位微控制器硬件，最先进的微控制器编程和仿真软件，数字信号处理器（DSP）开发套件，移动的机器人硬件，以及基于PC的数据采集和过程控制功能单元。所有这些都为南加州大学的学生提供了最先进的教育和教学环境。围绕编程和模拟软件，正在开发自学教学模块。这些模块与基于网络的交付一致，将大大提高机电一体化/微控制器领域的教学和教育生产力。这些活动补充了南加州大学目前在校园内引入信息技术的努力。南卡罗来纳州大学在图书馆与信息科学学院的领导下成立了一个全校范围的“信息学”工作组。通过该项目开发的自学模块支持整个校园的倡议，并有可能扩展到其他校园。该项目针对的是一个特殊的受众群体，其中包括很大比例的妇女（22%）和少数民族（30%）。

Engineering - Mechanical (56)The project is adapting educational materials, concepts, and methodologies from successful mechatronics/microcontroller courses developed at Georgia Institute of Technology (GIT) and Ohio State University (OSU). The components of these courses regarding manufacturing applications of mechatronics systems, and controls and Actuators are being adapted to the specifics of South Carolina industry. The adapted course components will be incorporated into the engineering curriculum in the form of updated and enhanced laboratory equipment/procedures, advanced programming and simulation software, and state-of-the-art instruction delivery/training methods. Mechatronics/Microcontroller teaching laboratory is being equipped with new 16-bit microcontroller hardware, state-of-the-art microcontroller programming and simulation software, Digital Signal Processor (DSP) development kit, mobile robots hardware, and PC-based data acquisition and process control functioning units. All these result in offer state-of-the-art educational and instructional environment to the USC students.Self-teaching instructional modules are being developed around the programming and simulation software. These modules, consistent with web-based delivery, are going to greatly enhance teaching and education productivity in the area of Mechatronics/Microcontrollers. These activities complement the current USC effort to introduce information technology across the campus. The University of South Carolina has formed a campus-wide task force on "informatics" under the leadership of the College of Library and Information Science. The self-teaching modules to be developed through this project support the campus-wide initiative and have the potential for being extended to other campuses. The project targets a special audience consisting of a large proportion of women (22%) and minorities (30%).