Engaging Learners with Innovative Automated Electronics Labs

让学习者参与创新的自动化电子实验室

• 批准号: 0536618
• 负责人: Matthew Vonk
• 金额: $ 3.71万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-River Falls
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-07-01 至 2008-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0536618&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Engaging; Learners; Innovative; Automated; Electronics

Physics (13) The goal of this project is to add to the growing body of innovative public domain electronics laboratories and to improve regional electronics instruction by developing electronics labs that foster learning of electronics concepts and produce a proficiency at using modern electronic tools. This project achieves the goal by adopting and exploiting contemporary tools such as automated data acquisition workstations, programmable chips, and simulations. In the same way that these powerful and flexible tools have generated impressive gains in productivity in the industrial sector, these electronics tools increase the efficiency with which students learn electronics. Students begin by building circuits by hand but soon proceed to use these tools to yield multiple benefits in terms of student learning. In addition, the labs are designed to interest and engage students. The project includes exploring implementation of labs that apply to real-world electronics using modern tools, and developing new labs made possible by the tools. Several labs involve students in designing and burning their own integrated circuits. This project is also harnessing the creative inspiration of the students themselves by incorporating student-designed lab projects into the curriculum. Intellectual Merit: This project builds on previous NSF-funded activities that have been successfully implemented, develops new labs using state-of-the-art tools, and shows improvement in student learning of advanced material. The project includes a broad coalition of interested parties that has committed significant resources to the project.Broader Impact: This project contributes to the undergraduate STEM education knowledge base by prototyping local implementation of a proven approach to electronics laboratories. Because of the rapid rate of technological development in the electronics industry, electronics labs need frequent updating. This project illuminates the challenges of implementing these successful innovations at small to mid-sized universities. A key part of this project is the active regional dissemination of electronics laboratory innovations by establishing a cohort of five interested electronics faculty in the greater Twin Cities region. This project encompasses three undergraduate courses plus a summer course that is designed for high school teachers who will in turn have a significant impact on their students.

物理（13）该项目的目标是增加创新的公共领域电子实验室的不断增长的体系，并通过开发电子实验室来改善区域电子教学，从而促进对电子概念的学习，并在使用现代电子工具方面熟练。 该项目通过采用和利用当代工具，例如自动数据采集工作站，可编程芯片和仿真来实现目标。就像这些强大而灵活的工具在工业领域产生了令人印象深刻的生产率增长一样，这些电子工具提高了学生学习电子产品的效率。 学生首先是手工建造电路，但很快就开始使用这些工具在学生学习方面产生多个好处。此外，实验室旨在吸引学生并吸引学生。该项目包括探索使用现代工具适用于实际电子产品的实验室的实现，并开发了工具使新实验室成为可能。 几个实验室涉及学生设计和燃烧自己的集成电路。该项目还通过将学生设计的实验室项目纳入课程中来利用学生自己的创造灵感。知识分子的优点：该项目建立在已成功实施的NSF资助的以前的活动上，使用最先进的工具开发了新的实验室，并显示了学生对高级材料学习的进步。 该项目包括一个广泛的有关方面的联盟，该联盟为该项目提供了大量资源。Broader的影响：该项目通过原型实施对电子实验室的现有实施，为本科STEM教育知识库做出了贡献。由于电子行业技术发展的速度迅速，因此电子实验室需要频繁更新。该项目阐明了在中小型大学实施这些成功创新的挑战。 该项目的关键部分是通过在大双子城地区建立五个感兴趣的电子学院组成的五个感兴趣的电子学院来积极地传播电子实验室创新。该项目涵盖了三个本科课程以及夏季课程，该课程是为高中教师设计的，这些教师反过来将对他们的学生产生重大影响。