A distance learning laboratory design experiment in undergraduate digital signal processing

Competitive pressures in the global marketplace have forced companies to form teams from the best talent available irrespective of their geographical location. As it comes online, the National information Infrastructure will be increasingly used to support such interactions. American companies are far ahead of the universities in realizing systems to support such geographically distributed interactions. Universities must catch up by exposing their students to such design environments. In addition, universities should help define and evaluate network-based information dissemination systems by serving as testbeds for new interactive strategies. The paper presents initial results in a distance teaming experiment at the University of Colorado, George Mason University, and Rice University.