PIs: Tim Pratt, Professor, Electrical Engineering, Glenda Scales, Assistant Dean for Distance Learning and Computing, Engineering

Project Goals or Needs Addressed: "The actual goals were to develop multimedia presentations which would help people understand communication systems. That was our objective. …the need is with students coming into information technology and electrical engineering without a strong background in communication systems…very few of them have a BS EE degree. …they need a rapid course that they can take on their own, which will bring them up to speed in these areas.."
Project Grants and Expenditures: $10,000 (year 9), staff wages



 


"What we produced, and this is mostly done in the multimedia lab, is some animated segments … which demonstrate that we are moving in a different direction in teaching how a communication system works. …We try to explain to people who don’t have an electrical engineering background how a communication system functions." "…the text and the animation will eventually form a module which we can use for self-paced learning and
on-line instruction." "[the animator’s] background is computer illustration, computer animation, at which he is very good, but of course he has no background …in electrical engineering. Part of my time has been spent to teach him what he is now creating to teach other people…."