Integrating Computer Engineering Labs with a "Sound Theme"

Board # 23 : Integrating Computer Engineering Lab Using Spiral Model

“…The suggested experiments and projects in the sound theme and the video theme are listed and detailed in separate articles 18,19,20 and are not repeated here. We just demonstrate an example sequence on the video theme in this section.…”

A New Curriculum to Teach System-Level Understanding to Sophomore Electrical Engineering Students using a Music-Following Robot

“…However, most of the reported works focus on specific fields within electrical and computer engineering. For example, the work in [1] proposes an interesting course in digital design and image processing to help students work with video systems while the course in [2] focuses more on software design for internet-of-things applications. Freshman or sophomore students usually have problems in finding their interests and they wonder which branch of electrical and computer engineering they should follow in their junior and senior years.…”

Board 21: A Simple SoC Platform for the Integrated Computer Engineering Lab Framework

“…This goal of the lab framework is to make students aware of the big picture, help them to connect the individual subjects, and apply and integrate the previous learning in a new context. The framework consists of a series of sound-and video-theme based lab experiments and projects [7,8], whose complexities and abstraction levels gradually grow with the progress of curriculum.…”

“…It demonstrates many key design concepts and can be used to construct custom and functional embedded systems. Earlier articles covered the development of the sound theme [7] and video theme [8]. This article describes the SoC platform and discusses the hardware and software organization.…”