Improving the freshman electrical and computer engineering lab

education;ECE 110 (course);teaching;Microcontroller;Hardware Description Language (HDL);embedded systems

Eisenhower, William R., Jr. ; Franke ; Patricia M.

关键词: education;    ECE 110 (course);    teaching;    Microcontroller;    Hardware Description Language (HDL);    embedded systems;   

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美国|英语

来源: The Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship

【 摘 要 】

This thesis covers the challenges of creating and maintaining an introductoryengineering laboratory. The history of the University of Illinois Electrical and ComputerEngineering department’s introductory course, ECE 110, is recounted. The current stateof the course, as of Fall 2008, is discussed along with current challenges arising from theuse of a hand-wired prototyping board with logic gates. A plan for overcoming theseissues using a new microcontroller-based board with a pseudo hardware descriptionlanguage is discussed. The new microcontroller based system implementation isextensively detailed along with its new accompanying description language. This newsystem was tried in several sections of the Fall 2008 semester alongside the old system;the students’ final performances with the two different approaches are compared in termsof design, performance, complexity, and enjoyment. The system in its first run showsgreat promise, increasing the students’ enjoyment, and improving the performance oftheir designs.