Year One Program Goals Met• Setup name brand marketing (Secured

TekBots.edu, etc., TekBots logo, trademark)• Created TekBots brochure & CD• Created TekBots website• Re-designed TekBot platform for new curriculum• Developed TekBots curriculum in ECE 112, 271-2• Prototyped ECE 351, 352 using lego platform• Built the team of faculty, instructors, students,

professionals, technicians• Preliminary development of ECE 375, ECE 202• Engaged Math-Science Education faculty/grad.

Students to perform evaluation

The Team

• Gale Sumida• Roger Traylor• Don Heer• Skip Rung• Chris • Tom Thompson• Siv Fern Chang

• Katy Nixon• Nathen Mullen• Travis Creason• David Zier• Martin Held• Jim Le• Levi Bennett

TekBots Outreach• Classes without Quizzes (alumni)• Alumni Association board• OSU Admissions & Orientation (HS students)• MathCounts (middle school)• ECE Engineering Expo• Girl Scout group (Women in Engineering)• 4-H BIT (Business & Information Technology) workshop

(Middle & high school)• Benton County Historical Society, Smithsonian traveling

exhibit, “Yesterday’s Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American Future” (8-9 year-olds)

• da Vinci Days• OSU Engineering groundbreaking & football halftime show

ECE 112Roger Traylor

Freshmen LaboratoriesDon Heer and Travis Creason

• Two TekBots laboratories implemented: ECE 112 & ECE 272

• Troubleshooting and design exercises have been built into the labs

• Heightened student excitement• Unique student innovations• Revisions to the hardware and curriculum on-

going• Student mentors employed in the lab

TekBots InfrastructureKaty Nixon and Siv Fern Chang

• TekBots web page– Documentation– Class laboratory experiments – Weekly meeting minutes– Video tutorials (Soldering, tinning wire, oscilloscope

use)

• Purchasing and documentation database– Parts lists – Schematics, etc.– Revision control

Integration of TekBots into Electrical Fundamentals (ENGR 202)

Travis Creason & Nathen Mullen• Integrate the TekBots platform into the labs

– Establish teaching objectives– Brainstorm ideas that fit curriculum

• Create experiences that bring theory to life– Power boost converter– Jacob’s ladder – Design projects

Integration of TekBots into Microprocessor Fundamentals (ECE 375)

David Zier• Computer organization & assembly language• Course and lab based on ATMEL ATmega8

8-Bit AVR with 8K Bytes Programmable Flash• Two Board Design for Labs

– Microcontroller Board

– TekBot Interface Board

• Off the shelf tools and design flexibility to facilitate self-directed experimentation

TekBots EvaluationTom Thompson

• Large-scale quantitative evaluation (on-going)• Student interviews (Increased complexity in

ECE 272 promoted community building and trouble-shooting)

• Documentation of meetings (Collective vision, Formative assessment)

• Planning group interviews (on-going)• Observations of labs and lectures• Expanded student interviews

Senior Computer Engineering Courses & Senior Design (ECE 471, 472, 474)

Martin Held

• FPGA board to add VLSI capability to TekBots platform– Based on Xilinx Spartan II 200 programmed

via USB & JTAG– Basic design elements defined– Developing USB implementation

TekBots™ Commercialization

•Concept: provide TekBots™ curriculum and kits to other schools starting Fall ’03. A separate for-profit supply company (per BM10) would handle supply chain and business matters•Adoption by other schools will help OSU obtain additional grants to fund TekBots™ development and generate a modest profit stream•Tektronix can help by assisting with parts procurement and kitting supplier selection for OSU’s 2002-2003 classes