Computing in electrical engineering education at Drexel university

Scoles, K.; Tanyel, Murat; Onaral, Banu

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“…One is a computer lab that offers, on top of the general college-wide applications such as word processing and internet access, engineering specific applications such as AutoCAD, MathCAD (v. During the first few weeks of the semester the class agreed to meet in the electronics lab in addition to regularly scheduled times to learn LabVIEW with the intent of using it for applications in DSP. LabVIEW was chosen to supplement the course for two main reasons: i) the professor's prior experience with it [19][20][21][22][23] and ii) the students' recognition that it is a worthwhile programming environment that will complement the other packages, namely Visual Basic, MATLAB and MathCAD, already introduced in other courses.…”

Section: Proceedings Of the 2001 American Society For Engineering Education Annual Conference And Expositionmentioning

confidence: 99%

From Block Diagrams To Graphical Programs In Dsp

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Tanyel²

2001 Annual Conference Proceedings

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Recent Control Systems, Communication Systems and Digital Signal Processing (DSP) courses have relied heavily on MATLAB and/or C, representing the state of the art in textual programming, for their standard computer tools. Many textbooks are published containing examples, if not sections, utilizing these textual languages. Whereas this environment may be efficient in manipulating equations, textual implementation of processes best described by block diagrams loses its intuitive substance. In this paper, we will describe experiences in a DSP course with an alternative graphical programming environment, namely LabVIEW, from both a student's and an instructor's perspective. We will describe the adjustments that have to be made by individuals trained in conventional, textual programming environments during the transition to the graphical environment. We will give examples of implementations that are better left graphical, such as direct form, canonical, transpose of canonical and cascade realizations of IIR filters. We will conclude with a summary of student feedback on the effectiveness of the graphical programming environment in the presentation of DSP topics.

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Section: Proceedings Of the 2001 American Society For Engineering Education Annual Conference And Expositionmentioning

confidence: 99%

From Block Diagrams To Graphical Programs In Dsp

Viss¹,

Tanyel²

2001 Annual Conference Proceedings

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“…Therefore, National Instruments' LabVIEW is accessible to students in and outside of class. LabVIEW was chosen to supplement the DSP course for two main reasons: i) the instructor's prior experience with it [21][22][23][24][25] and ii) the recognition that it is a worthwhile programming environment that will complement the other packages, namely C++ and MATLAB, already introduced in other courses.…”

Section: The Overall Environment: the Course The Facilities And mentioning

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Putting Bells & Whistles on DSP Toolkit of LabVIEW

Tanyel¹

2011 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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Most Digital Signal Processing (DSP) courses rely heavily on MATLAB and/or C, representing the state of the art in textual programming, for their standard computer tools. We have argued, in previous papers, that whereas this environment may be efficient in manipulating equations, textual implementation of processes best described by block diagrams loses its intuitive substance and have provided examples of LabVIEW implementations that are better left graphical. The standard DSP toolkit of LabVIEW is aimed at the practicing engineer/scientist who needs to process acquired data to reach other ends in contrast to a student whose aim is to learn about signal processing. LabVIEW's DSP toolkit is rich with high level algorithms but needs to be enhanced in order to serve the pedagogical needs of students of DSP. While teaching this course at a previous institution, we developed many routines to complement the standard DSP toolkit as we tried to demonstrate basic concepts. Returning to teaching DSP at a different institution after a break of 6 years, some of those old tools needed to be revised and new possibilities that LabVIEW has to offer in this field were discovered. This paper will review our past experience and will focus on this additional toolkit that was developed to make LabVIEW a better teaching tool in a DSP class. In particular, detailed descriptions of classroom activity that takes advantage of LabVIEW's sound capture and playback routines will be provided. The paper will conclude with the results of a focus group discussion with the students of the DSP class.

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“…The student(s) who finished first earned a diecast car. The notes used were an electronic version of a past book aimed at freshmen revised from a previous experience 8 . Figures 2 and 3 depict examples of student mini projects.…”

Section: Labview Exercisesmentioning

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Hot Wheels®, Blackboard And Labview – What Do They Have In Common?

Tanyel¹

2005 Annual Conference Proceedings

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After nine years of keeping away from freshmen, I taught an "Introduction to Engineering" course this year. Although I had undertaken the project with great trepidation, the course turned out to be one that I enjoyed teaching. In the lab, I introduced LabVIEW, a graphical programming language for data acquisition, analysis and presentation. The course was supplemented by the Blackboard Learning System on the web and Hot Wheels ® incentives in the classroom. This paper reports on the introduction to LabVIEW in the lab, the enhancement that the Blackboard Learning System brought to the course and the effect of Hot Wheels ® incentives on the class dynamics as well as the student design projects. It summarizes the programming topics I covered with LabVIEW and provides some examples of exercises in the lab. It also describes the activity that took place in the Blackboard site for the course, and concludes with a summary of the students' impressions of these new programming and learning environments.

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Computing in electrical engineering education at Drexel university

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From Block Diagrams To Graphical Programs In Dsp

From Block Diagrams To Graphical Programs In Dsp

Putting Bells & Whistles on DSP Toolkit of LabVIEW

Hot Wheels®, Blackboard And Labview – What Do They Have In Common?

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