Introduction to engineering
Subtitle: a starter's guide with hands-on digital multimedia and robotics explorations
By: Lina J. Karam and Naji Mounsef
Contributors: Mounsef, Naji
Series: Synthesis lectures on engineering -- #7
Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA)
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781598297638; 9781598297621
Subjects: Electrical engineering; Computer engineering; Robotics; Digital electronics; Computer sound processing
Other titles: Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science.
Description: This lecture provides a hands-on glimpse of the field of electrical and computer engineering. The broad range of hands-on applications utilize LabVIEW and the NI-SPEEDY-33 hardware to explore concepts such as basic computer input and output, basic robotic principals, and introductory signal processing and communication concepts such as signal generation, modulation, music, speech, and audio and image/video processing. These principals and technologies are introduced in a very practical way and are fundamental to many of the electronic and computerized devices we use today. Some examples include audio level meter and audio effects, music synthesizer, real-time autonomous robot, image and video analysis, and DTMF modulation found in touch-tone telephone systems.
Notes: Part of: Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science.

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Table of contents: title: Getting familiar with LabVIEW and SPEEDY-33; title: Overview; title: Background; title: Signal and time representation; title: Structures in LabVIEW, while loop, for loop, case; title: Experiment; title: Hardware and software setup; title: A/D and D/A conversion; title: Displaying signals in time domain; title: Debugging techniques; title: Applications using LEDs and switches using the SPEEDY-33; title: Noise removal; title: Music equalizer; title: Telephone; title: Digital audio effects: echo and reverb; title: Music composer; title: Creating digital music; title: Experiment; title: Music composer; title: Introduction to robotics; title: Equipment/tools; title: Experiment; title: Bump sensor detection program; title: Basic robotic program; title: Counter program; title: AM radio; title: AM modulation/demodulation; title: Experiment; title: AM transmitter; title: AM receiver; title: Modem; title: What is a modem; title: Experiment; title: Digital image processing fundamentals; title: Digital image processing concepts; title: Experiment; title: Histogram equalization; title: Thresholding; title: Applications using USB camera; title: Acquiring image using USB camera; title: Simple USB camera image acquisition; title: USB camera video acquisition; title: Basic machine vision with USB camera.