Powerful Technologies Together for Engineering Education (PTT for EE)

New Powerful Technologies enable fast development and increase the speed of information dissemination. When this is combined with the exponential growth of Internet connectivity, it offers new challenges in Engineering Education. In view of this new paradigm, professors in universities together with students at many levels (high school, bachelor, master etc.), must act as one to strengthen their alliance with industry. In our Creativity Laboratory at the “Transylvania” University we formed a new and original alliance with Cypress Semiconductor and National Instruments to promote and develop applications using these powerful technologies. We involve all levels of education from high schools to the master degree based on this idea: Powerful Technologies Together for Engineering Education (PTT for EE). We believe that the marriage of PSoC programmable system-on-chip families, with a huge variety of data acquisition systems such as the LabVIEW graphical programming system, myDAQ, and myRIO along with Vizic Technologies new smart intelligent graphics processor units enable a compelling pedagogy to add color, visual, and touch interfacing to any application or project.