College of Engineering & CS
Wright State University
Dayton, Ohio 45435-0001

EGR 199: Fundamentals of Engineering

These are the labs developed by

Prabhaker Mateti

during 1999-2000 for use in EGR 199.

E-mail, Web, Unix (PM) Web surfing has become a common daily experience. These notes and the lab experiments help surf the Web more productively. We also explain how a home PC can be set up to access WSU resources on the Web.
Explore Your PC (PM) PCs have become a commodity item. Hundreds of thousands of households already have a LAN at home of two or three PCs. This lab makes the internals, both hardware and software, of a PC less mysterious. It aims to give the student the needed confidence to be able to build a PC at home. It also gives the installation experience of Linux, an operating system that is growing in popularity.
Web Page Design (PM) This document explains the internals of Web page creation and publication to a Web server. It presents examples of HTML, Java applets, and JavaScript methods. The document serves as support material for a term project (Web Design Project), and also as a description of a 2-hour computer lab.
Local Area Networks (PM) This chapter is about Local Area Networks (LANs). The lab experiments illustrate the hardware and software setup of peer-to-peer networking of two PCs, and a LAN of several PCs running Linux.
VRML (PM) This article gives a taste of VRML via examples. It assumes that the student is already familiar with Web, and HTML authoring.
Distance Collaboration with Net Meeting (PM) Groupware is a class of software that helps groups of colleagues (workgroups) attached to a local-area network organize their activities. As the dictionary definitions above show, collaboration implies cooperation and teamwork, in both the corporate setting and the home office. Net-based conferencing software enables you to participate in group meetings from whatever corner of the world you happen to be in. You can collect opinions from several people simultaneously, conduct a brain-storming session, draw concepts on a whiteboard, work on shared documents, type comments back and forth. This lab introduces distance collaboration via Net Meeting on your own PC.
Distance Collaboration in 3D Modeling (PM) This article is a continuation of distance collaboration, and 3d modeling. We continue our experimentation with 3d modeling using the freeware package called sPatch, and collaboration with Net Meeting. This article assumes that the student is already familiar with distance collaboration and 3d modeling tools.
3-D modeling, RAY-tracing (PM) This article introduces 3D modeling, and ray tracing. It assumes that the student is already familiar with Web, HTML authoring. and VRML.
Internet Infrastructure (PM) This chapter is about the infrastructure of the Internet: LANs and WANs, and how the network of network functions.
Database (PM) Introduction to databases. Quick description of large databases of the world. Intro to SQL using mySQL on Windows.
Device Drivers (PM) This article is about software components known as device drivers. This is third in a series of modules on computer hardware related topics for a class on freshman engineering. It assumes that the student is already familiar with the internals of a PC, local area network setup, Web, and HTML authoring.
CD Duplicator Project (PM) Winter term project conducted by a group of five students. They built a CD duplicator based on a functioning but discarded PC, a $100 CD-RW device, and Linux OS.
JavaScript Lesson One This article is a quick tour of JavaScript, and how it can be used in web pages. It assumes that the student is already familiar with web authoring. It describes things to do in a computer-lab session of one to two hours following a lecture of, say, one hour.

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