August

Facing the joint intensive for the international ICT Project Based Learning, which will start in this coming October, only the UEC students will have special classes about the procedure of this project, the plan of the October program, and notes about the trip to Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications for the final report of PBL mechanism understood by them after to complete some preliminary works of the international PBL that was going to initiate.

September

UEC students went abroad to Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in China.

On the first day, all the International PBL participants gathered to know each other, acquired the tools required for the course and made groups of PBL students through placement.

The second day, the subjects of each PBL theme were provided the groups and the students discussed the timetable and role assignment for PBL development.

On the final day, Every group summarized the results of the discussion into PowerPoint materials and presented it.

All the students experienced the operation of equipment and learned its operation procedures and structure, with the development of positive debates in the last half of the class; it was distinctive that they enthusiastically tried to solve their subject of PBL by themselves. We are looking forward to the PBL competition that will be done in Japan through their keen discussion.

December

Wireless Networks

In the Wireless Networks Group for the PBL theme, student groups approached three problems in a competition of study results on December in the UEC. Common purpose in three problems is that all groups aim to cross the finish line remote-controlled car on the stereoscopic route with fastest score.

First problem is to drive the remote-controlled cars on stereoscopic course through the direct communication between the controller and the car. Second problem required how fast the cars can run out an assigned route over a multi-hop wireless network. In the multi-hop network, some issues such as delay, disconnection and so on often occur. Students should quickly and accurately control the car with avoiding these problems by own idea and techniques.

In the third problems environment, interferences causes a reduction in performance are arisen. They may encounter difficulties to guide it due to unexpected issues on the car operation, but everything worked out without incidents and all of them obtained a good time in a friendly atmosphere over all problems.

Robotics

Robotics group consists of 12 student from both universities UEC (Japan)and BUPT (China). During three days, Each team learning how to use software and basic principle to operate a robot.

The first day, each team learning how to use software and other materials.

The second day, they acutually controlling the robots.

And the last day, discuss idea to optimize the source codes.

DSP

In the Desital Signal Processing Group, the implementation of the voice changer is roughly divided into two phases of hardware and software.

First, every student learnes the basic system of Raspberry Pi. Second step is design and implement for audio input/output controlling/switching.

Design audio signal processing with algorithms and implement in software phase. At last day, present the performance award.