Year One Program Goals Met

• Setup name brand marketing (Secured TekBots.edu, etc., TekBots logo, trademark) • Created TekBots brochure & CD • Created TekBots website • Re-designed TekBot platform for new curriculum • Developed TekBots curriculum in ECE 112, 271-2 • Prototyped ECE 351, 352 using lego platform • Built the team of faculty, instructors, students, professionals, technicians • Preliminary development of ECE 375, ECE 202 • Engaged Math-Science Education faculty/grad. Students to perform evaluation

• Gale Sumida • Roger Traylor • Don Heer • Skip Rung • Chris • Tom Thompson • Siv Fern Chang

The Team

• Katy Nixon • Nathen Mullen • Travis Creason • David Zier • Martin Held • Jim Le • Levi Bennett

TekBots Outreach

• Classes without Quizzes (alumni) • Alumni Association board • OSU Admissions & Orientation (HS students) • MathCounts (middle school) • ECE Engineering Expo • Girl Scout group (Women in Engineering) • 4-H BIT (Business & Information Technology) workshop (Middle & high school) • Benton County Historical Society, Smithsonian traveling exhibit, “Yesterday’s Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American Future” (8-9 year-olds) • da Vinci Days • OSU Engineering groundbreaking & football halftime show

ECE 112 Roger Traylor

Freshmen Laboratories

Don Heer and Travis Creason

• • Two TekBots laboratories implemented: ECE 112 & ECE 272

Troubleshooting

built into the labs and

design

exercises have been • Heightened student excitement • Unique student innovations • Revisions to the hardware and curriculum on going • Student mentors employed in the lab

TekBots Infrastructure

Katy Nixon and Siv Fern Chang

• TekBots web page – Documentation – Class laboratory experiments – Weekly meeting minutes – Video tutorials (Soldering, tinning wire, oscilloscope use) • Purchasing and documentation database – Parts lists – Schematics, etc.

– Revision control

Integration of TekBots into Electrical Fundamentals (ENGR 202)

Travis Creason & Nathen Mullen

• Integrate the TekBots platform into the labs – Establish teaching objectives – Brainstorm ideas that fit curriculum • Create experiences that bring theory to life – Power boost converter – Jacob’s ladder – Design projects

Integration of TekBots into Microprocessor Fundamentals (ECE 375)

David Zier

• Computer organization & assembly language • Course and lab based on ATMEL ATmega8 8-Bit AVR with 8K Bytes Programmable Flash • Two Board Design for Labs – Microcontroller Board – TekBot Interface Board • Off the shelf tools and design flexibility to facilitate self-directed experimentation

TekBots Evaluation

Tom Thompson

• Large-scale quantitative evaluation (on-going) • Student interviews (Increased complexity in ECE 272 promoted community building and trouble-shooting) • Documentation of meetings (Collective vision, Formative assessment) • Planning group interviews (on-going) • Observations of labs and lectures • Expanded student interviews

Senior Computer Engineering Courses & Senior Design (ECE 471, 472, 474)

Martin Held

• FPGA board to add VLSI capability to TekBots platform – Based on Xilinx Spartan II 200 programmed via USB & JTAG – Basic design elements defined – Developing USB implementation

TekBots™ Commercialization

•Concept: provide TekBots™ curriculum and kits to other schools starting Fall ’03. A separate for-profit supply company (per BM10) would handle supply chain and business matters •Adoption by other schools will help OSU obtain additional grants to fund TekBots™ development and generate a modest profit stream •Tektronix can help by assisting with parts procurement and kitting supplier selection for OSU’s 2002-2003 classes