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Year One Program Goals Met

Year One Program Goals Met. Setup name brand marketing (Secured TekBots.edu, etc., TekBots logo, trademark) Created TekBots brochure & CD Created TekBots website Re-designed TekBot platform for new curriculum Developed TekBots curriculum in ECE 112, 271-2

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Year One Program Goals Met

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  1. Year One Program Goals Met • Setup name brand marketing (Secured TekBots.edu, etc., TekBots logo, trademark) • Created TekBots brochure & CD • Created TekBots website • Re-designed TekBot platform for new curriculum • Developed TekBots curriculum in ECE 112, 271-2 • Prototyped ECE 351, 352 using lego platform • Built the team of faculty, instructors, students, professionals, technicians • Preliminary development of ECE 375, ECE 202 • Engaged Math-Science Education faculty/grad. Students to perform evaluation

  2. Gale Sumida Roger Traylor Don Heer Skip Rung Chris Tom Thompson Siv Fern Chang Katy Nixon Nathen Mullen Travis Creason David Zier Martin Held Jim Le Levi Bennett The Team

  3. TekBots Outreach • Classes without Quizzes (alumni) • Alumni Association board • OSU Admissions & Orientation (HS students) • MathCounts (middle school) • ECE Engineering Expo • Girl Scout group (Women in Engineering) • 4-H BIT (Business & Information Technology) workshop (Middle & high school) • Benton County Historical Society, Smithsonian traveling exhibit, “Yesterday’s Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American Future” (8-9 year-olds) • da Vinci Days • OSU Engineering groundbreaking & football halftime show

  4. ECE 112Roger Traylor

  5. Freshmen LaboratoriesDon Heer and Travis Creason • Two TekBots laboratories implemented: ECE 112 & ECE 272 • Troubleshooting and design exercises have been built into the labs • Heightened student excitement • Unique student innovations • Revisions to the hardware and curriculum on-going • Student mentors employed in the lab

  6. TekBots InfrastructureKaty Nixon and Siv Fern Chang • TekBots web page • Documentation • Class laboratory experiments • Weekly meeting minutes • Video tutorials (Soldering, tinning wire, oscilloscope use) • Purchasing and documentation database • Parts lists • Schematics, etc. • Revision control

  7. Integration of TekBots into Electrical Fundamentals (ENGR 202)Travis Creason & Nathen Mullen • Integrate the TekBots platform into the labs • Establish teaching objectives • Brainstorm ideas that fit curriculum • Create experiences that bring theory to life • Power boost converter • Jacob’s ladder • Design projects

  8. Integration of TekBots into Microprocessor Fundamentals (ECE 375)David Zier • Computer organization & assembly language • Course and lab based on ATMEL ATmega8 8-Bit AVR with 8K Bytes Programmable Flash • Two Board Design for Labs • Microcontroller Board • TekBot Interface Board • Off the shelf tools and design flexibility to facilitate self-directed experimentation

  9. TekBots EvaluationTom Thompson • Large-scale quantitative evaluation (on-going) • Student interviews (Increased complexity in ECE 272 promoted community building and trouble-shooting) • Documentation of meetings (Collective vision, Formative assessment) • Planning group interviews (on-going) • Observations of labs and lectures • Expanded student interviews

  10. Senior Computer Engineering Courses & Senior Design (ECE 471, 472, 474)Martin Held • FPGA board to add VLSI capability to TekBots platform • Based on Xilinx Spartan II 200 programmed via USB & JTAG • Basic design elements defined • Developing USB implementation

  11. TekBots™ Commercialization • Concept: provide TekBots™ curriculum and kits to other schools starting Fall ’03. A separate for-profit supply company (per BM10) would handle supply chain and business matters • Adoption by other schools will help OSU obtain additional grants to fund TekBots™ development and generate a modest profit stream • Tektronix can help by assisting with parts procurement and kitting supplier selection for OSU’s 2002-2003 classes

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