Hardware Prototyping Capability for a Community Service Projects Course in Electrical and Computer Engineering

电气和计算机工程社区服务项目课程的硬件原型设计能力

• 批准号: 9650771
• 负责人: Edward Coyle
• 金额: $ 7.93万
• 依托单位: Purdue University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-06-15 至 1999-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9650771&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Hardware; Prototyping; Capability; Community; Service

In the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) program, Electrical and Computer Engineering students earn academic credit for long-term team projects that solve technology-based problems for local community service agencies. Each project team is a mix of sophomores, juniors, and seniors, and each student may participate in an EPICS project for up to 3 years. This structure provides the continuity required to carry out long-term engineering design projects that can have a significant impact on the community. The program is establishing a hardware prototyping facility. Its goal is to enable the student teams to fully implement and test their designs. The students thus experience all phases of an engineering project, from project-definition meetings with their community service agency partner, through system design, to construction and evaluation of a system prototype. After a prototype has proven its value to the community, funds raised from private sources are used to produce the systems deployed on a permanent basis. The five current EPICS projects and those to be added involve many technologies: computer networks, digital electronics, distributed databases, electromechanical systems, energy management systems, human-computer interfaces, power electronics, solar power, speech processing, and wireless communications. The equipment supports hardware prototyping efforts involving any combination of these technologies. The addition of this full-scale hardware prototyping capability is crucial to the continued development of the EPICS program. It enables the EPICS program to become an outstanding model of how community awareness, communication skills, teamwork, system design skills, and project management skills can be taught to undergraduates in engineering.

在社区服务（EPICS）计划的工程项目中，电气和计算机工程专业的学生为长期团队项目获得了学分，这些项目为当地社区服务机构解决了基于技术的问题。每个项目团队都是大二，大三和前辈的混合，每个学生都可以参加一个长达3年的史诗项目。这种结构提供了进行长期工程设计项目所需的连续性，这些设计可能会对社区产生重大影响。 该计划正在建立硬件原型制作设施。它的目标是使学生团队能够完全实施和测试他们的设计。因此，学生体验了工程项目的所有阶段，从与社区服务代理合作伙伴进行的项目定义会议到系统设计，到系统原型的构建和评估。在原型证明其对社区的价值之后，从私人来源筹集的资金被用来永久生产部署的系统。 当前的五个史诗项目和要添加的项目涉及许多技术：计算机网络，数字电子产品，分布式数据库，机电系统，能源管理系统，人机接口，电源电子设备，太阳能处理，语音处理和无线通信。设备支持硬件原型制作工作，涉及这些技术的任何组合。 这种全尺度硬件原型制作能力的添加对于史诗计划的持续发展至关重要。它使史诗计划能够成为社区意识，沟通技巧，团队合作，系统设计技能和项目管理技能的杰出模式，以教导工程学的本科生。