RET Site in Engineering and Computer Science: Digital Signal Processing in Radio Astronomy

工程和计算机科学中的 RET 站点：射电天文学中的数字信号处理

• 批准号: 1611114
• 负责人: Natalia Schmid
• 金额: $ 57.78万
• 依托单位: West Virginia University Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1611114&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RET; Site; Engineering; Computer; Science

This Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering and Computer Science Site, entitled Digital Signal Processing in Radio Astronomy (DSPIRA) at West Virginia University (WVU) Lane Department of Computer Sciences and Electrical Engineering, the WVU Center for Gravitational Waves and Cosmology, and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, (NRAO) in Green Bank, WV, will expose high school STEM teachers from West Virginia school districts, to hands-on research experiences in the engineering method, via involvement in the research, design, development, and prototyping of digital signal processing (DSP) techniques and applications targeted for the next generation of radio telescopes. Radio Astronomy is undergoing a revolution as major new telescopes come on line. This next generation of telescopes requires exceptionally sophisticated signal processing algorithms running in high throughput, heterogeneous computing environments. Implementation of these algorithms and hardware is pushing the state of the art of current DSP techniques. Advanced DSP algorithms running in commodity devices are a fundamental part of modern life. The signal processing techniques being developed here are also becoming vital across a wide range of areas, including vision-based navigation, remote sensing, robotics, mechatronics, computerized tomography, biomedical engineering, radar and sonar, and signal processing for security. The experiences gained by the teachers will give them, and through them their own students, insight into the design, development, and implementation of such devices. DSPIRA addresses a confluence of three needs: an industry need for greater public understanding of a widely used technology; science and industry's need to have cross-curricular problem solvers; and the K-12 world's need to integrate engineering principles into their new science standards. Over a three-year period this RET Site will offer an intensive six week summer research program and academic year follow-up to a total of 30 STEM high school teachers who will join research teams led by engineers at WVU and NRAO who will provide the RET teachers the opportunity to make meaningful contributions, with authentic involvement, in these engineering research areas. With the recent advances in open source Software Defined Radio (SDR) tools, teachers will be able to learn core concepts and explore implementation strategies in an extremely accessible software/hardware environment (a laptop and RTL-SDR device running GNU Radio software) and take these back to their institutions. The research experience will also include RET teachers working with project staff to develop classroom projects that involve an entire classroom of students in DSP activities. in addition to dissemination of the results of RET participants' research projects, through poster sessions and national conferences such as NSTA and ASEE, the PIs will share all educational and research material developed over the period of this project both in state and nationally through the Teach Engineering Digital Library.

工程和计算机科学教师 (RET) 网站的研究经验，题为西弗吉尼亚大学 (WVU) 计算机科学和电气工程系、西弗吉尼亚大学引力波和宇宙学中心的射电天文学数字信号处理 (DSPIRA)，位于西弗吉尼亚州格林班克的国家射电天文台 (NRAO) 将为来自西弗吉尼亚学区的高中 STEM 教师提供工程方法的实践研究经验，通过参与针对下一代射电望远镜的数字信号处理 (DSP) 技术和应用的研究、设计、开发和原型制作。 随着大型新型望远镜的投入使用，射电天文学正在经历一场革命。下一代望远镜需要在高吞吐量、异构计算环境中运行极其复杂的信号处理算法。这些算法和硬件的实现正在推动当前 DSP 技术的发展。 在商品设备中运行的高级 DSP 算法是现代生活的基本组成部分。这里正在开发的信号处理技术在许多领域也变得至关重要，包括基于视觉的导航、遥感、机器人、机电一体化、计算机断层扫描、生物医学工程、雷达和声纳以及安全信号处理。 教师所获得的经验将使他们以及他们自己的学生能够深入了解此类设备的设计、开发和实施。 DSPIRA 满足了三个需求：行业需要公众更好地了解广泛使用的技术；科学和工业需要跨学科的问题解决者； K-12 世界需要将工程原理融入到新的科学标准中。 在三年的时间内，该 RET 站点将为总共 30 名 STEM 高中教师提供密集的为期六周的夏季研究计划和学年后续课程，这些教师将加入由 WVU 和 NRAO 工程师领导的研究团队，他们将提供 RET教师有机会真正参与这些工程研究领域，做出有意义的贡献。随着开源软件定义无线电 (SDR) 工具的最新进展，教师将能够在极其易于访问的软件/硬件环境（运行 GNU Radio 软件的笔记本电脑和 RTL-SDR 设备）中学习核心概念并探索实施策略，并采取这些回到他们的机构。研究经验还将包括 RET 教师与项目人员合作开发课堂项目，让整个课堂的学生参与 DSP 活动。 除了通过海报会议和国家会议（例如 NSTA 和 ASEE）传播 RET 参与者的研究项目成果外，PI 还将通过 Teach 分享该项目期间在州和全国范围内开发的所有教育和研究材料。工程数字图书馆。