A Freshman ´Introduction to ECE Design´ Course Based on the LEGO Mindstorms NXT

Author

Williams, Douglas B.

Author_Institution

Center for Signal & Image Process., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA

fYear

2009

fDate

4-7 Jan. 2009

Firstpage

435

Lastpage

439

Abstract

Faculty members from Georgia Tech´s School of electrical and computer engineering (ECE) have worked jointly with engineers from National Instruments to develop a new freshman course. This course, entitled ´Introduction to ECE Design,´ is constructed around the LEGO Mindstorms NXT robotics kit. This course addresses the diverse objectives of providing students with a systems-level design experience at the begi.nning of their academic programs and introducing them to a broad range of ECE disciplines. A primary goal is to enable students to make better-informed decisions when choosing whether or not to major in electrical engineering or computer engineering.

Keywords

computer science education; educational courses; educational technology; electrical engineering education; ECE design course; LEGO mindstorms NXT; academic programs; computer engineering; electrical engineering; freshman course; robotics kit; Charge measurement; Current measurement; Design engineering; Educational institutions; Hardware; Instruments; Power measurement; Programming environments; Robots; Signal processing; freshmen engineering; robotics; signal processing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Signal Processing Workshop and 5th IEEE Signal Processing Education Workshop, 2009. DSP/SPE 2009. IEEE 13th

Conference_Location

Marco Island, FL

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3677-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3677-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DSP.2009.4785963

Filename

4785963