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Support for Different Roles in Software Engineering Master's Thesis Projects
Like many engineering programs in Europe, the final part of most Swedish software engineering programs is a longer project in which the students write a Master's thesis. These...
Martin Höst, Robert Feldt, Frank Lüders
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2010
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A Cost-Effective Atomic Force Microscope for Undergraduate Control Laboratories
Abstract--This paper presents a simple, cost-effective and robust atomic force microscope (AFM), which has been purposely designed and built for use as a teaching aid in undergradu...
Colin N. Jones, Jorge Gonçalves
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2010
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An Undergraduate Course and Laboratory in Digital Signal Processing With Field Programmable Gate Arrays
In this paper, an innovative educational approach to introducing undergraduates to both digital signal processing (DSP) and field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based design in a o...
Uwe Meyer-Bäse, G. Alonzo Vera, Anke Meyer-B&...
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2010
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Innovative Teaching of IC Design and Manufacture Using the Superchip Platform
This paper describes how an intelligent chip architecture has allowed a large cohort of undergraduate students to be given effective practical insight into IC design, by designing ...
Peter R. Wilson, Reuben Wilcock, Iain McNally, Mat...
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2010
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An Electrical Engineering Summer Academy for Middle School and High School Students
The Electrical Engineering Summer Academy for Pre-College Students was held at the University of Tulsa from June 11th through June 15th , 2007. Of the 20 students accepted, 19 par...
Peter LoPresti, Theodore W. Manikas, Jeff Kohlbeck
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2010
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Remote Spectroscopy in the Visible Using Fibers on the Optical Internet Network
The work presented here demonstrates the feasibility of using the single-mode fibers of an optical Internet network to deliver visible light between separate laboratories as a way ...
Rafael A. S. Ribeiro, Anderson R. de Oliveira, S&e...
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2010
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Industry-Oriented Laboratory Development for Mixed-Signal IC Test Education
The semiconductor industry is lacking qualified integrated circuit (IC) test engineers to serve in the field of mixed-signal electronics. The absence of mixed-signal IC test educat...
John Hu, Mark Haffner, Samantha Yoder, Mark Scott,...
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2010
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A Wireless Communications Systems Laboratory Course
A novel wireless communications systems laboratory course is introduced. The course teaches students how to design, test, and simulate wireless systems using modern instrumentation...
Sabih Güzelgöz, Hüseyin Arslan
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2010
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Problem-Based Learning in Communication Systems: Student Perceptions and Achievement
The paper presents a curriculum design for, and subsequent evaluation of, a communications systems course using problem-based learning (PBL) as the instructional methodology. It de...
John E. Mitchell, Brian Canavan, Jan Smith