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Research
Description of NSF CCLI Grant No. DUE-0127085
In 2002, the National Science Foundation granted a Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) grant to The Department of Engineering & Technology at Texas State University-San Marcos. The grant funded the project entitled “Enhancement
of Digital, Control, and Microelectronics Courses for a New Manufacturing Engineering Curriculum.” The project term
(with extensions) ran from Aug. 1, 2002 to Dec. 31, 2004. The project’s principal investigator was Karl D. Stephan,
associate professor in The Department of Engineering & Technology. Prof. Vedaraman Sriraman, full professor in the same department, was
co-investigator.
The Manufacturing Engineering program at Texas State University-San Marcos was authorized in the fall of 2000, and graduated
its first class in the fall of 2003. Several courses of importance to this new curriculum were improved through efforts
funded by this project. MFGE 4376, Control Systems and Instrumentation, benefited from the addition of several laboratory
control systems setups. TECH 4374, Digital Electronics, was completely redesigned so that the last several weeks of the
course consists of a design project using CPLDs (complex programmable logic devices) and digitally-controlled robot arms.
TECH 4392 and 4394 (Microelectronics Manufacturing I and II) also benefited from the purchase of semiconductor test equipment
under this grant.
This website is designed to make documentation on this projects available to students, faculty, and interested parties
at other locations. Since we plan to continue course development after the official termination date of the project, this
website will be updated periodically to reflect the current status of the courses as they are affected by the resources
made available through the project.
For information on the following courses click on the following links:
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