The Texas ECE Capstone Design Projects provide a unique and supportive environment for industry to work with faculty on senior classroom projects. This mutually beneficial partnership supports academic excellence by ensuring the presence of a top ten ranked department, supporting Texas ECE?s educational mission, and by creating an environment where students can learn from a practical applicatio...

—An autonomous and multiplatform virtual laboratory for educational purposes is presented. The implemented platform includes a server with a SSH (Secure SHell) connection and a separated repository containing the virtual experiments. The programming of the experiments is implemented in Java language based tool, the EJS (Easy Java Simulation) and uses an external computation engine, for example ...

With the rapid development of computer technology and the improvement of performance of mobile devices, e-learning based on the Internet and smart mobile devices becomes an important direction of educational development. This paper proposed the system design idea, general framework and functions realization of e-learning platform for database course. The platform broke through the traditional t...

In this paper a ”hardware in the loop” design concept as an experimental part of power electronics courses is considered. Hardware in the loop method utilizes plant simulation model in connection with real standard target controller. An low cost virtual test bed for educational purposes is developed and tested. The used general purpose equipment can be utilized for controller implementation as ...

Insects offer a vast array of teaching opportunities for precollege students. Here we address the basics teachers need in order to use insects successfully in their curricula. We identify exemplary resources in the printed North American literature and point out potentially productive places for teachers and students to search for ideas and materials. We review the roles of entomology in the ed...

The Texas ECE Capstone Design Projects provide a unique and supportive environment for industry to work with faculty on senior classroom projects. This mutually beneficial partnership supports academic excellence by ensuring the presence of a top ten ranked department, supporting Texas ECE?s educational mission, and by creating an environment where students can learn from a practical applicatio...

The South African National Centre for Radiography and Tomography (SANCRAT), located at Necsa, strives to be leaders in utilizing ionizing radiation as imaging probes in research and development as part of the South African National System of Innovation. The centre already encompasses a Neutron Radiography and Tomography facility (SANRAD) as well as a High Energy X-ray facility (HEXRAD). Recentl...

Ted Keen, a farmer from Wilson County, lost his life when a tractor trailer truck traveling 70 miles per hour rear-ended his tractor in the spring of 2003. This incident was the catalyst for addressing the issue of highway safety with farm equipment. Research data also indicated that this was a need for farmers in Wilson and the surrounding counties. The University of North Carolina Highway Saf...