The EECE Microcontroller laboratory is a facility for sophmore students learning the fundamentals of microcontrollers, assembly language programming, and embedded system design. The industrial partners are LSI Logic and Microsoft. Students enrolled in EECE 431 attend two hours of lecture each week and one three-hour laboratory period. Each laboratory is a problem-based learning project that lasts thre or four weeks.
Students work in project teams of two or four.
The project is facilitated by the course instructor and graduate-student teaching assistants. The interior design of the laboratory facilitates active learning, project meetings, conferencing, and engineering design. Six identical student microcontroller workstations are available for team use. Two software-only workstations are also available.