The goal of this interprofessional project will be to develop a test-bed system for a new device targeted at ECE 100 Introduction to Engineering. It may also be useful for an upper-level course in Hardware/Software Design for Embedded Systems. This course is being developed in response to... Show moreThe goal of this interprofessional project will be to develop a test-bed system for a new device targeted at ECE 100 Introduction to Engineering. It may also be useful for an upper-level course in Hardware/Software Design for Embedded Systems. This course is being developed in response to feedback from the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) that students need a major meaningful design experience involving integrated hardware/software design. An important aspect of this design experience will be the use of open-ended design problems that integrate a micro-controller with some larger system. Ideally, the students in this course would design and build a complete hardware/software system. However, this is unfeasible due to the time constraints of the semester and the cost constraints of providing the necessary parts. Instead, we propose to give students in the class a number of test-bed systems that represent an "almost complete" hardware system that requires additional software and hardware design activities in order to fully complete a system.
Sponsorship: IIT Collaboratory for Interprofessional Studies and the Ed Kaplan Entrepreneurial Studies Program
Project Plan for IPRO 358: Low-Cost Robotic Controller for the Fall 2003 semester Show less
