Aksense: A General-purpose Wireless Controlling and Monitoring Device for Teaching First-year Electrical and Computer Engineering: FIRST-YEAR PROGRAMS DIVISION CALL FOR PAPERS

摘要

This Work-in-Progress paper describes the integration of Aksense, a low-cost general-purpose wireless controlling and monitoring device, within the first-year multidisciplinary Introduction to Engineering at Sonoma State University. Our focus in this project has been creating an affordable educational open source wireless platform that enables first-year engineering and non-engineering students with any background to design their own engaging experiments. A key advantage of utilizing Aksense board is that students, particularly non-engineering students, do not have to have any prior knowledge about electronics, programming, soldering or wiring different electronic components together in order to create exciting individual projects. In this paper we elaborate on architecture and utilization of Aksense and present the limited feedback we have received from our first-year engineering students.