Check out what 3 important lessons university students recently learned:
1. Engineering is cool.
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Bringing hands-on learning to first-year engineering students at the University of Maryland, read how freshmen are experiencing how “cool” their career in engineering can be.
2. Engineers and artists aren’t all that different.
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A chain reaction is a sequence of reactions, each caused by the previous one. In our previous blog, we discussed our hope for a chain reaction to occur by urging Indian universities to make a shift towards analog system design.
Chain reaction in the periodic elements.
Since Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh understands the need to shift from a traditional approach to one teaching analog concepts, it has set up…
*This blog originally posted on Think.Innovate. See the original post here.
Making music almost always involves putting hands to strings or brass or keys. We sit at the piano and play chopsticks or pick up a guitar and strum the G cord as easily as grabbing a fork to eat. But how can those who struggle with something like using utensils at the dinner table make their own music?
The answer to that question is what inspired…
*This blog originally posted on Launch Your Design. See the original post here.
Valparaiso University will be offering an online course this fall open to all interested in becoming familiar with microcontroller (MCU) basics and how to interact with an MCU. The class will utilize the new TI MSP430FR6989 LaunchPad™ development kit and a pre-assembled lab kit to be made available on element14.com. The topics will cover…
The dedicated team at MathWorks has been working on expanding support for BeagleBone Black. Brian McKay, technical marketing manager at MathWorks brings us this easy to use tutorial.
You can now connect your BeagleBone Black to MATLAB®. MATLAB is the high-level language and interactive environment used by millions of engineers and scientists worldwide. It lets you explore new…
The TI Innovation Challenge India Design Contest was as competitive as ever this year, attracting 11,200 participants from 654 different engineering colleges in India. The following highlights this year’s first-runner up team and how they utilized TI technology to solve a real-world problem.
A walk through a paddy field sounds simple enough. But what if the walk for farmers is under adverse climate conditions or…
It’s back-to-school time, but that doesn’t have to mean just for kids.
TI is helping learners of all ages study engineering by partnering with the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Texas at Austin, and the Georgia Institute of Technology on Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) curricula.
So instead of getting your notebooks and pens ready, get your LaunchPads and breadboards out. Here…
The following is the final blog in the Analog Curriculum series. In the previous blog, we discussed the need for a shift towards analog system design as a basic analog electronics course. In the following blog, Dr. KRK Rao highlights how ASLK PRO can be easily used to implement these changes in analog labs.
Given the need for system design, how should the lab course be structured?
The lab should correlate with the flow…
Before even embarking on their careers, interns are making a name for themselves at TI by innovating, creating and showing off their technical skills.
Winners of this year's "DIY with TI: Intern Edition" competition.
Take the “Wingman” device, for example. This intern do-it-yourself (DIY) project offers accident and theft detection for cyclists using an MSP432 LaunchPad and five other TI parts…
To further provide opportunities to turn viable ideas into reality, we supported the University of Texas at Dallas’ new entrepreneurship degree program at launch two years ago. As of last month, two startup projects from the program have successfully made it into the marketplace. We're excited to be a part of the forefront of student innovation and creativity. The below story about these startups originally appeared…
Three-hundred teams entered this year’s Texas Instruments Innovation Challenge North America Design Contest. Those 300 teams were narrowed down to three – each design offering a unique and innovative solution for a pressing real-world problem. But only one design could win the top prize.
Troy Bryant and Sean Lyons from the University of Florida were named the overall winners of this year’s design contest.…
The TI Innovation Challenge India Design Contest was as competitive as ever this year, attracting 11,200 participants from 654 different engineering colleges in India. The following highlights this year’s second-runner up team and how they utilized TI technology to solve a real-world problem.
Upon visiting his family farm, Vignesh R and the rest of his team members Manoj Kumar.B, Anandhu Ajith Vyas, Manoj Kumar.…
*The following contest deadline is Friday, July 17. Enter TODAY for your chance to win!
Do you dream of creating a solution to make monitoring health and fitness activities easier? Using near field communication (NFC) in your designs can help! We want to hear your ideas for the next wearable design based on our RF430FRL15xH NFC sensor transponder in our ultimate NFC wearable design contest…
The following is the second blog in the Analog Curriculum blog series. This blog summarizes Dr. KRK Rao’s views on analog curriculum and how it should evolve to meet today’s industry needs.
Q. As you had mentioned in the previous conversation, we should introduce analog through signal processing applications. Please elaborate why and how.
A. Analog systems are extensively used in the applied spaces like…
This story originally appeared on the E2E News Blog and tells about TI Community Champion Gautam Iyer’s experience meeting the former President of India, Honorable Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam at the Texas Instruments Innovation Challenge (TIIC) India Design Contest.
Recently TI Community Champion Gautam Iyer, was a judge at the final event of the Texas Instruments Innovation Challenge (TIIC) India Design Contest…
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are gaining traction with university students and professors, especially in countries where equivalent academic programs may not be available. The resources available from online courses are not only being utilized...
The Texas Instruments Innovation Challenge (TIIC) India Design Contest train journey that wound its way through different universities across India, bringing on board talented passengers, finally reached its destination at Texas Instruments, Bangalore. Winding its way uphill and reaching new heights of accomplishments – the journey was nothing but spectacular. We witnessed here fresh young minds, building solutions that…
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Dr. K.R.K Rao was a Professor & the Head of Electrical Engineering Department at Indian Institute of Technology(IIT), Madras. He has over 40 years’ experience in teaching Analog Courses at IIT Madras. Dr. Rao joined TI in year 2004 as head of the Analog training division at Texas Instruments, India. Dr. Rao conceptualized the ASLKPRO which is now used as a teaching platform in over 400 universities across… |
The following is a guest blog post written by Professor Dhananjay Gadre. Professor Gadre teaches at Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (NSIT) in Delhi, India. The below blog is about the hands-on training he conducts for his undergraduate students.
In NSIT’s Division of Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE), we understand that books and lab work do not sufficiently give an…
Taking college campuses by storm, popular “hackathon” events have traditionally focused only on software development. However, as more students dream up new applications for the Internet of Things (IoT), they are...
