12940 EE 299 AA M 130-320 EEB 137 (lab)
12941 EE 299 AB Th 930-1120 EEB 137 (lab)
Today, microprocessors routinely touch almost every aspect
of our daily lives. We find them in such familiar places as portable music
players, cell phones, tablets, and GPS systems. If we look a little deeper, we
see that they’re also in modern automobile electronic systems, medical devices,
robotics, toys, and games. Some of these applications can be quite simple; others
may be incredibly complex. Where they go
and what they will be tomorrow can only be found in our imagination.
To work with such devices, today’s engineer needs to learn
and to use a variety of tools and principles from all of the different fields
of engineering. Such knowledge helps us to
understand and to address the challenges and complexities of these systems as
we work to design and build better and better products for the future.
This hands-on class takes a first step by introducing some of
the basic concepts of electricity, microprocessors, and programming using the C
language. Through in-class exercises,
homework, and a series of practical lab projects, we will develop and practice
good design methodologies. Then, working as part of a team, we learn to apply
these skills as we design, debug, and test applications for the Arduino, one of
today’s microprocessors.
The class, with no prerequisites other than curiosity, will meet for 3 hours of lecture and 2 hours of lab each week. It is geared towards freshman, sophomores and juniors who have not yet started their EE concentration coursework and is open to students who have completed CSE 142 and CSE 143.
