Title :
Instrumentation education through model railroading
Author :
McCormick, John W.
Abstract :
The model railroad provides an exciting environment for teaching a real-time embedded systems course, a course in which most student teams successfully complete a major software project. The author has developed the interface hardware to allow other schools to easily connect a variety of computers to a model railroad at minimal cost
Keywords :
educational courses; embedded systems; engineering education; railways; instrumentation education; model railroading; real-time embedded systems course; Communication system control; Computer science; Computer science education; Embedded software; Embedded system; Hardware; Instruments; Laboratories; Real time systems; Switches;
Journal_Title :
Instrumentation & Measurement Magazine, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MIM.2006.1708349
