| Description: | Developed by Prof. Ed Doering, a professor in the ECE department at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (Terre Haute, IN), “Communications Systems Projects with LabVIEW” is a set of hands-on student projects for undergraduate communications system classes or laboratories. It covers fundamental communications systems topics such as bit error rate (BER) versus Eb/No, coherent detection, baseband modulation, inter-symbol interference (ISI) / eye diagrams, and block coding. The courseware is hosted on Connexions, a web-based open publishing resource, and is available for download now, ready-to-use by educators as assignments or lab exercises. Like other content available on Connexions, the project material is organized as modules, enabling educators flexibility to use as a set or build their own custom courseware, using modules from this set as components of their new content. The modules make extensive use of screencasts -- videos captured directly from the computer screen with audio narration and a hallmark of this resource -- use a mixture of hand-drawn text, animations, and video of the LabVIEW tool in operation to provide a visually rich learning environment. |
