An undergraduate course - Internet-based instrumentation and control

Author

Zhuang, Hanqi ; Morgera, Sal

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Florida Atlantic Univ., Boca Raton, FL, USA

fYear

2004

fDate

20-23 Oct. 2004

Abstract

In this paper, the objective, strategy and implementation details of a new undergraduate course, Internet-based instrumentation and control, are presented. The course has a companion laboratory that is supported by the National Science Foundation. It is offered to senior-level undergraduate engineering students who are interested in sensing, instrumentation, control and Web programming and want to learn more about the integration of these technologies for solving real-world engineering problems. It will also be offered to gifted high school seniors as a vehicle to attract them to engineering disciplines. Preliminary assessment of the first offering of the course is encouraging and has shown that the course has achieved success in helping students to understand concepts and master basic technologies for developing Internet-based automatic systems.

Keywords

Internet; computer science education; computerised instrumentation; control engineering computing; control engineering education; educational computing; educational courses; Internet-based automatic system; Internet-based control; Internet-based instrumentation; National Science Foundation; Web programming; senior-level undergraduate engineering student; undergraduate course; Automatic control; Automotive engineering; Communication system control; Education; Educational programs; IP networks; Instruments; Internet; Laboratories; Programming profession;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Education, 2004. FIE 2004. 34th Annual

ISSN

0190-5848

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8552-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.2004.1408481

Filename

1408481