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Franke, Patricia M. Eisenhower, William R., Jr. 2010-08-31T20:02:53Z 2010-08-31T20:02:53Z 2012-09-07T16:43:33Z 2010-08-31T20:02:53Z 2010-08 This thesis covers the challenges of creating and maintaining an introductory engineering laboratory. The history of the University of Illinois Electrical and Computer Engineering department’s introductory course, ECE 110, is recounted. The current state of the course, as of Fall 2008, is discussed along with current challenges arising from the use of a hand-wired prototyping board with logic gates. A plan for overcoming these issues using a new microcontroller-based board with a pseudo hardware description language is discussed. The new microcontroller based system implementation is extensively detailed along with its new accompanying description language. This new system was tried in several sections of the Fall 2008 semester alongside the old system; the students’ final performances with the two different approaches are compared in terms of design, performance, complexity, and enjoyment. The system in its first run shows great promise, increasing the students’ enjoyment, and improving the performance of their designs. Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2010-07-01T13:24:04Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 1 Eisenhower_William.pdf: 6364433 bytes, checksum: cb9f36e3dcb662600230583efa3c7679 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2010-08-31T20:02:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Eisenhower_William.pdf: 6364433 bytes, checksum: cb9f36e3dcb662600230583efa3c7679 (MD5) license.txt: 4064 bytes, checksum: 238d7a3714727d9f16d0bd42bf757c1d (MD5) Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by William Ingram (wingram2@illinois.edu) on 2010-08-31T20:04:49Z Item is restricted until 2012-08-31T20:04:44Z Item reinstated by Sarah Shreeves (sshreeve@illinois.edu) on 2012-09-07T16:43:33Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Dissertations and Theses (ID: 204) Dissertations and Theses - Electrical and Computer Engineering (ID: 446) No. of bitstreams: 3 Eisenhower_William.pdf.txt: 119097 bytes, checksum: 34a5945ff5df629c9f9c7580d01dc877 (MD5) Eisenhower_William.pdf: 6364433 bytes, checksum: cb9f36e3dcb662600230583efa3c7679 (MD5) license.txt: 4064 bytes, checksum: 238d7a3714727d9f16d0bd42bf757c1d (MD5) Item released from any restrictions by Sarah Shreeves (sshreeve@illinois.edu) on 2012-09-07T16:43:33Z http://hdl.handle.net/2142/16978 en Copyright 2010 William R. Eisenhower, Jr. education ECE 110 (course) teaching Microcontroller Hardware Description Language (HDL) embedded systems Improving the freshman electrical and computer engineering lab Electrical & Computer Eng 1933 Electrical & Computer Engr 1200 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thesis M.S. MS:Electr & Computer Eng-UIUC 10KS1200MS