Intro to Engineering Course at ASU Employs LabVIEW to Engage Students
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When Arizona State University educators decided to redesign their freshman Introduction to Engineering Design course, they wanted to increase recruitment and retention by exciting freshmen students about electrical and computer engineering careers. They chose NI LabVIEW, NI ELVIS, and the NI Speedy/33 as a foundation for student-team design projects that make up the class.
Engaging Freshman Engineers
In redesigning the Arizona State University (ASU) CSE/EEE 101 - Introduction to Engineering course, Prof Lina Karam, Naji Mounsef, and others wanted to increase recruitment and retention by exciting freshmen students about 300 - 400 electrical and computer engineering careers. The course also seeks to translate concepts into real-world applications by providing hands-on experience with tools and equipment commonly used in industry. To achieve these goals, they chose NI LabVIEW, NI ELVIS, and NI Speedy/33 as the foundation for engaging student-team projects to introduce topics ranging from signal processing to robotics.
The CSE/EEE 101 course is among the first taken by incoming freshman at ASU and has a total enrollment of 300-400 students per year. The table below lists the 19 labs developed for the course (table).
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LAB# |
TITLE |
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1 |
Getting Familiar with LabVIEW and NI Speedy-33 |
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2 |
Applications using LEDs and Switches using the Speedy-33: Audio Level Meter |
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3 |
Introduction to Robotics |
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4 |
Noise Removal using Digital Filters |
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5 |
Digital Audio Effects: Echo, Reverb |
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6 |
Music Equalizer |
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7 |
Music Composer |
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8 |
Telephone |
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9 |
AM Radio |
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10 |
Modem |
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11 |
Digital Image Processing Fundamentals |
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12 |
Applications using USB Camera |
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13 |
Getting Familiar with NI ELVIS |
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14 |
Audio Level Meter using LED’s |
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15 |
Noise Removal using Analog Filters |
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16 |
Music Equalizer using Op-Amps |
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17 |
Music Composer using 555 timers |
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18 |
AM Radio: AM Modulator |
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19 |
AM Radio: AM Demodulator |
Learn More
| Slides | Slides from an NI Week 2008 session presented by Prof Karam, provide more details about the course. |
| Syllabus | Prof. Karam has posted a syllabus, course notes and more online here. |
| Products |
NI LabVIEW |
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