Welcome to the home web site for the new eSyst: Systems Electronics Project. This National Science Foundation funded project DUE# 0702753 provides educational resources to help electronics faculty at two-year community colleges to modify their existing traditional electronics courses so the emphasis is now on systems applications versus component analysis.
We hope you enjoy the web site. If you have any questions on the web site or the eSyst project, please contact Tom McGlew, eSyst Project Manager, by email at ,
or by phone at (480) 731-8055.
Join Us September 5, 2008 for this FREE Networks Webinar about eSyst :
Presenter:
Tom McGlew, eSyst Project Manager Maricopa Advance Technology Education Center
Length:
90 minutes
Description: If you are an Electronics Faculty, or Chair of an Electronics department, this is a webinar not to miss. The National Science Foundation grant project, ESyst, is shifting the focus of Electronics curriculum from a component analysis approach to a systems applications approach.
Find out the latest developments as the ESyst team introduces the project, new web site, updates on the SAME-TEC 2008 conference, and unveils the first systems focused course guidelines and materials for DC/AC Circuits.
Stay up-to-date with the Electronics Education evolution.
Registration will open on August 15, 2008. Check back here for more information.
Check Out M.I.T.’s Virtual Electronics Lab:
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is part of the eSyst: System Electronics Project where its expertise in the deployment of remote online laboratories (iLabs) is being used to develop an online live systems electronics laboratory to support the eSyst Systems courses.
The iLabs Project uses real live electronics equipment linked to an interface software application that allows students and faculty to run pre-developed lab activities remotely from their classrooms, electronics laboratories, or from their homes via the internet. Through the usage of these unique online lab activities, students experience the live interaction with equipment and receive real-time data returned to them for further analysis.
Check out the links above to take your students to the next level of live electronics and semiconductor lab experimentation.
SAME-TEC 2008 eSyst Workshop Materials:
Date/Time: Tuesday, July 29, 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Location: Renaissance Hotel, Austin, TX
Description: The eSyst Project was presented by Tom McGlew of the Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC) and members of the eSyst development team. This full-day workshop was the second in a series of ongoing events designed to highlight and inform you on the status of the new National Science Foundation funded ATE project grant (DUE-0702753) “A New Systems View of Electronics for 2010.” This project’s deliverables will help to revitalize your programs through a “systems” approach to teaching electronics, address declining enrollments in your current electronics programs,
and will aid in retaining your students.
In the morning, the eSyst panel of developers updated the participants on the current status of the project including: development activities on the first three courses to be updated to a systems approach, and the process for developing Concept Inventory evaluation tools.
In the afternoon, the eSyst panel developers presented a look at the Online Systems Lab activity developed with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and presented overviews of the first modified systems course lab activities. The workshop ended with a general feedback and questions period.
Click on the links below to view the eSyst conference presentation materials.
