Applying An Interactive, Modular Approach To Effectively Teach Signal Processing Concepts

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is a Senior Product Manager for Signal Processing and Communications at National Instruments (Austin, TX). Working for the firm since 2000, he has served in roles involving product management and R&D related to signal processing, communications, and measurement. Prior to working with NI, he worked as a technical trade press editor and as a research engineer. As a trade press editor for Personal Engineering & Instrumentation News, he covered PC-based test and analysis markets. His research engineering work involved embedding microstructures in high-volume plastic coatings for non-imaging optics applications. He received a BS (1993) in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA). Erik Luther, National InstrumentsErik Luther, Textbook Program Manager, works closely with professors, lead users, and authors to improve the quality of Engineering education utilizing National Instruments technology. During his last 5 years at National Instruments, Luther has held positions as an academic resource engineer, academic field engineer, an applications engineer, and applications engineering intern. Throughout his career, Luther has focused on improving education at all levels including volunteering weekly to teach 4th graders to enjoy science, math, and engineering by building Lego Mindstorm robots. In his current position he manages the NI Textbook program and has had the opportunity to collaborate on numerous textbooks including Learning with LabVIEW by Robert H. Bishop and Embedded Signal Processing with the Micro Signal Architecture by W.S. Gan, and S.M. Kuo. Luther graduated from the University of Missouri -Columbia in 2003 with a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering. He, his wife and son live in Austin, Texas. Ed Doering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Edward Doering received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Iowa State University in 1992, and has been a member the ECE faculty at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology since 1994. He teaches courses in digital systems, circuits, image processing, and electronic music synthesis, and his research interests include technology-enabled education, image processing, and FPGA-based signal processing.