A computer-based learning environment for electronic fault diagnosis

Author

Sandrasegaran, K. ; Cheung, W. ; Hossein, R. ; Zia, V. ; Malowany, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., McGill Univ., Montreal, Que., Canada

fYear

1993

fDate

14-17 Sep 1993

Firstpage

237

Abstract

In this paper, we present the motivation, design and implementation of a real-time, interactive computer based learning environment for the task of electronic troubleshooting. The student is presented with an electric circuit which contains a fault and the student is required to diagnose the fault by interacting with the learning environment. The architecture consists of three elements: the simulator, the interface and the expert module. The simulator computes the behavior of the circuit under various configurations. The interface is used for communication between the learning environment and student. The Expert module is used to provides hints and evaluation of the student hypothesis

Keywords

computer aided instruction; electronic engineering computing; fault location; interactive systems; real-time systems; Expert module; computer-based learning; electronic fault diagnosis; electronic troubleshooting; interactive; interface; real-time; simulator; Chemical technology; Circuit faults; Circuit simulation; Circuit testing; Computational modeling; Computer aided instruction; Computer architecture; Computer science education; Fault diagnosis; Humans;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1993. Canadian Conference on

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2416-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.1993.332299

Filename

332299