Hands On Circuit Design And Test Laboratory For Distance Learning In Electrical Engineering

This paper describes the design of the Pandora box, a low-cost laboratory instrumentation that includes a power supply, a signal generator, and a two-channel oscilloscope. In distance-learning environments, the Pandora box, together with a student’s personal computer at home, permits a full range of design and test of hardware circuits in the sophomore and junior Electrical Engineering curriculum. Preliminary students’ feedback indicates enthusiastic response to this first offering of at-home hands-on experimental laboratory.