Utilization of MATLAB Simulink Exercises for an Undergraduate Communications Course

Abstract

A set of six MATLAB Simulink laboratory exercises was previously designed in 2011 for an undergraduate analog/digital communication course. This paper presents our experience of a pilot test on these exercises, followed by their modification and enhancement, and concluding with an application of the modified exercises in the spring and fall 2012 offerings of the course. The pilot test by a student from the spring 2011 class identified several areas of improvement for the previous design of the lab exercises, including lack of details of lab instructions, high level of difficulty in the first two labs, and partial completeness of the last two labs. Significant effort was then put into the modification and re-design of these labs in fall 2011, and the enhanced labs were applied in spring and fall 2012 with enrollment of nine and seven students, respectively. Feedback from students was solicited after each lab exercise. The results show that the Simulink labs were well received by students, in comparison with a traditional lecture-only approach or a MATLAB script programming approach. Some slight changes were also made to address the minor flaws in these labs. Currently, the Simulink lab manuals and solutions are available to be disseminated. The solutions are available to instructors by emailing Dr. Y. Rosa Zheng zhengyr@mst.edu. The lab manuals are available to the public for free download at http://web.mst.edu/∼zhengyr/EE243/ EE243LabManuals2012.zip. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2013.

Department(s)

Electrical and Computer Engineering

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

2153-5965

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Article - Conference proceedings

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English

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© 2024 The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Jan 2013

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