Synchronous and asynchronous distributed DSP education

Abstract

The Georgia Tech Regional Engineering Program (GTREP) was originally created to provide the opportunity for students in southeastern Georgia to earn a Georgia Tech undergraduate engineering degree without leaving the region. Students complete two years of general education and engineering prerequisites at their home institutions before beginning the Georgia Tech curriculum as juniors. Georgia Tech courses are taught both by local faculty in southeast Georgia and remotely by faculty on the main campus. This system is further complicated by the fact that courses are delivered to three partner institutions as well as the GTREP facilities. The GTREP program is an ideal testbed for novel distributed education methods. We present some results for the combined approach we have developed, and outline plans for future scaling as the GTREP program expands.