Title
Teaching and learning engineering subjects in the times of the IoT: A case study on a course on wireless communications and networks
Date Issued
15 December 2017
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
The Internet of Things (IoT) is becoming important in many areas that include health, entertainment, manufacturing, automotive, home and building automation, industrial, etc. Will it be important for education and more specifically for teaching and learning? If so, what engineering subjects would benefit the most and how effective could the IoT be for teaching and learning? Can IoT technologies and environments be effectively used to enhance teaching and learning engineering subjects? In this paper, we describe the development of a new course on wireless communications and networks that makes heavy use of IoT technologies. The paper describes in detail one new laboratory experiment involving an SDR board (BladeRF) sending messages to an RFM22 based receiver using a specific modulation scheme and data frame structure. The BladeRF board together with a laptop running GNU radio and GRC (GNU radio companion) act as the transmitter. Preliminary feedback indicates that IoT technologies and environments are promising to enhance teaching and learning of electrical and computer engineering subjects.
Start page
3589
End page
3594
Volume
2017-January
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Telecomunicaciones
Ingeniería eléctrica, Ingeniería electrónica
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85046673372
Resource of which it is part
Proceedings IECON 2017 - 43rd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
ISBN of the container
9781538611272
Conference
43rd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 2017
Sponsor(s)
This work was supported in part by Fincyt, contract 198 - FINCYT-IA-2013, and IPEN (Peruvian Institute of Nuclear Energy), Dirección de Investigación y Desarrollo, Instituto Peruano de Energía Nuclear, Av. Canadá 1470, San Borja, Lima 41. Perú.
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