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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Chen, M.-H.; Huang, M.-C.; Ting, Y.-C.; Chen, H.-H.; Li, T.-L. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2010
In this article, a course on high-frequency wireless communications systems is presented. With the 145-MHz baseband subsystem available from a prerequisite course, the present course emphasizes the design and implementation of the 2.45-GHz front-end subsystem as well as system integration issues. In this curriculum, the 2.45-GHz front-end…
Descriptors: Prerequisites, Laboratories, Telecommunications, Computer Networks
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Meyer-Base, U.; Vera, A.; Meyer-Base, A.; Pattichis, M. S.; Perry, R. J. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2010
In this paper, an innovative educational approach to introducing undergraduates to both digital signal processing (DSP) and field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based design in a one-semester course and laboratory is described. While both DSP and FPGA-based courses are currently present in different curricula, this integrated approach reduces the…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Computer Software, Laboratories, Undergraduate Study
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Dawy, Z.; Husseini, A.; Yaacoub, E.; Al-Kanj, L. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2010
The field of radio network planning and optimization (RNPO) is central for wireless cellular network design, deployment, and enhancement. Wireless cellular operators invest huge sums of capital on deploying, launching, and maintaining their networks in order to ensure competitive performance and high user satisfaction. This work presents a lab…
Descriptors: User Satisfaction (Information), Measurement Equipment, Radio, Telecommunications
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Hu, J.; Haffner, M.; Yoder, S.; Scott, M.; Reehal, G.; Ismail, M. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2010
The semiconductor industry is lacking qualified integrated circuit (IC) test engineers to serve in the field of mixed-signal electronics. The absence of mixed-signal IC test education at the collegiate level is cited as one of the main sources for this problem. In response to this situation, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Course Objectives, Academic Achievement, Laboratories
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Fitzgerald, S.; McCauley, R.; Hanks, B.; Murphy, L.; Simon, B.; Zander, C. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2010
Learning to debug is a difficult, yet essential, aspect of learning to program. Students in this multi-institutional study report that finding bugs is harder than fixing them. They use a wide variety of debugging strategies, some of them unexpected. Time spent on understanding the problem can be effective. Pattern matching, particularly at the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Computer Science Education, Introductory Courses, Programming