Teaching Data Acquisition Systems - A Hands-on Approach

摘要

Suggestive for this paper is the students' expression that says "the first 6 years are difficult until you reach the third school year". And the rhymes are not very far from the truth. In this moment the curriculum sets for the first two years only fundamental courses as: math, physics, mechanics, electronics, computer programming. In the last two or three years there are special courses, that are meant to transform the good theoretical base student into an inventive and skilful engineer. The partition of the education process in two separate successive stages: base preparation and technical education seams fair, theoretically speaking. Unfortunately our experience has shown that things aren't going the right way because the lack of a professional horizon. Theoretical base preparation, time and energy consumer, barely allows the student to dream of technical accomplishments and to fulfil their hopes. Students carry on the first stage of preparation without foreseeing the MP3 encoder in the study of Fast Fourier Transform, a dancing robot control in the study of differential equations or an environment parameters monitoring system in thermodynamics. More than that, an important percent of the students is losing the enthusiasm and sometimes the belief that they will achieve what they have hoped.