A Vertically-Integrated Application-Driven Undergraduate Signal Processing Laboratory

工程-电气（55）该项目正在开发一个垂直整合到课程中的信号处理实验室，通过应用驱动的练习来说明理论概念。拟议的实验室经验是模仿莱斯大学成功的信号处理实验室，但引入了两个独特的特点。首先，新实验室整合了从大二到大四的多门课程，而不是服务于单一的课程。其次，实验室练习是应用驱动的，强调要在硬件上实现的信号处理算法的发展。随着学生通过信号处理课程的学习，他们将从高级算法生成过渡到硬件级设计和实现。利用与该机构评估办公室共同开发的评估工具，该项目正在根据四个标准进行评估：概念学习、保留和注册、学生动机和材料质量。研究人员计划在工程教育期刊上发表他们的研究成果，并通过他们自己的网站，以及一个存放教育材料的独立网站（cnx.rice.edu），在地区和国家会议上展示。他们还计划将他们的材料以印刷的实验室手册的形式提供，并附带一张CD，其中包含用于各种实验的真实数据和信号。

Engineering - Electrical (55)The project is developing a signal-processing laboratory that is vertically integrated into the curriculum to illustrate theoretical concepts through application-driven exercises. The proposed laboratory experience is modeled after the successful signal-processing laboratory at Rice University, but introduces two unique features. First, the new laboratory is integrated into multiple courses from the sophomore to senior level, rather than serving a single course. Second, the laboratory exercises are application-driven and emphasize the development of signal processing algorithms to be implemented on hardware. As students advance through the signal-processing curriculum, they transition from high-level algorithm generation to hardware-level design and implementation. Using assessment tools developed jointly with the institution's Office of Assessment, the project is being evaluated on four criteria: conceptual learning, retention and enrollment, student motivation, and quality of materials. The investigators plan to publish their work in engineering education journals and present it at regional and national conferences, through their own website, and through an independent site that hosts educational material (cnx.rice.edu). They also plan to make their material available in a printed laboratory manual with an accompanying CD containing real-world data and signals for use in the various experiments.