Title :
Use of non-commercial software for UNIX in undergraduate engineering education
Author :
McDonald, James S.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Eng. Sci., Trinity Univ., San Antonio, TX, USA
Abstract :
The paper discusses the use of non-commercial software for UNIX in the undergraduate engineering laboratory and classroom. Two main categories of software are addressed: engineering applications across a variety of disciplines, and graphical user interface components. Engineering applications are surveyed, and it is argued the best of these have several important advantages over similar commercial packages in the context of engineering education. Graphical user interface components which allow the presentation of these applications to students in a “user-friendly” way are surveyed, and several example GUIs are described
Keywords :
Unix; courseware; engineering computing; engineering education; graphical user interfaces; UNIX; engineering applications; graphical user interface components; noncommercial software; students; undergraduate engineering classroom; undergraduate engineering education; undergraduate engineering laboratory; user friendly application presentation; Application software; Design engineering; Electronics packaging; Engineering education; Graphical user interfaces; Laboratories; RLC circuits; SPICE; Software packages; Visualization;
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers in Education Conference, 1996. FIE '96. 26th Annual Conference., Proceedings of
Conference_Location :
Salt Lake City, UT
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3348-9
DOI :
10.1109/FIE.1996.567778
