#PRAGMA

About the project

We are #pragma.

Objective:

There is an effort in the College of Engineering to improve the freshman engineering course (EE 10111-10112) and make the course more interesting and educational. One of the problems relevant to EE senior design is that there is not an adequate introduction to the fun side of electrical engineering that teaches fundamental concepts of what electrical engineers do.
Our goal is to create an engaging module for the freshman engineering course representative of the different applications of EE in the real world. There is presently little exposure to EE concepts in the freshman course. In addition to emphasizing civil engineering, computer science, and robotics, the freshman course should contain a module that focuses on circuits and signal processing, clearly expresses what EE entails, and sparks interest in the field among the freshmen. The concepts fundamental to EE are also transferrable skills among different engineering disciplines, such as familiarity with microcontrollers, filters, and circuits.
The proposed solution is a new EE learning module, using an EE Toolbox that will contain components to allow students to gain an introduction to the different aspects of EE. The Toolbox will be an interactive learning environment designed to cover the basics of signal processing and circuit building. Some of the topics to be covered include waveforms and a basic understanding of the difference between the time and frequency domains. Students would have the ability to input a waveform (audio signal) through the audio jack and have the software process it digitally using prebuilt filters as well as building their own first order filters.

Acknowledgments:

We would like to thank our professors for their help on this project, specifically Doug Hall, Victoria Goodrich, Patrick Fay, and Mike Schafer for their guidance and assistance. We would also like to thank Charles Shinaver, our software consultant, for debugging all kinds of code along the way and for making this website look awesome. To our friends and family, thank you for always being there for us. To our fellow EE's... we did it!