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updated September 25, 2009
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Eagle
Test Systems & Texas Instruments Provide $600,000 to Equip Rose-Hulman’s
“Laboratory of the Future”
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Eagle Test Systems and Texas Instruments have equipped Rose-Hulman Institute
of Technology to meet the future of electrical and computer engineering with
a new Test & Product Engineering Laboratory to provide graduates the unique
skills to test complex electronics for automotive, computing,
telecommunications and aerospace and defense industries.
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Cutting-Edge Technology: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
President Matt Branam (top) and Tina Hudson, associate professor of
electrical and computer engineering, thank Steve Price (left) of
Eagle Test Systems/ Teradyne and Bryan Copeland of Texas Instruments
for their contributions to the creation of the new Test & Product
Engineering Laboratory. |
Rose-Hulman dedicated the new Test & Product Engineering Laboratory, located
in Room B-104 of Moench Hall. The event featured Rose-Hulman President Matt
Branam, Eagle Test Systems Designer Steve Price, Texas Instrument’s
Precision Analog Product Engineering Manager Bryan Copeland, Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering Head Fred Berry and Tina Hudson,
associate professor of electrical and computer engineering.
“This is the laboratory of the future and puts Rose-Hulman in a unique
position to be a leader in educating students with skills that are
desperately needed by the semiconductor industry,” states Berry, who is
director of the Global Wireless Educators Consortium. He points out that
Rose-Hulman is the only undergraduate institution in an elite group of
American colleges and universities offering a specialization in test and
product engineering.
The laboratory allows Rose-Hulman to offer two courses that cover analog and
mixed signal test and product engineering. These courses make available
opportunities for students to learn the special methods required for testing
analog and mixed signal integrated circuits at the production level, where
minimizing test time is critical, according to Hudson. Students obtain
hands-on experience with an industry-grade automatic tester to investigate
the trade off with test time and measurement accuracy, and may earn a
technical certificate in test and product engineering that’s rare in
undergraduate engineering.
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Learning About Laboratory: Steve Price, designer for Teradyne,
passes along tips to Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Electrical
and Computer Engineering Professor Tina Hudson on how to use the new
high precision automatic analog tester. |
"This laboratory gives Rose-Hulman students an excellent opportunity to play
a lead role in the future of this expanding career field," Price said.
"Hands-on experience, which the students can get in this new lab, will help
expand their base of knowledge about analog and mixed signal testing.
Students and alumni with these skills will help pave the way for further
developments in the semiconductor career field."
Eagle Test Systems, now a subsidiary of Teradyne, donated a high precision
automatic analog tester, worth approximately $500,000, and provided Hudson
with training materials so that students could have hands-on experiences in
the laboratory. Texas Instruments provided $100,000 for faculty and
curriculum development in the test and product engineering field, allowed
Rose-Hulman to establish space for the laboratory purchased boards to
interface with the test equipment and provided faculty professional
development opportunities.
"Texas Instruments is proud to support education today in hopes of helping
industry tomorrow. This laboratory will help grow the next generation of
electrical and computer engineers," Copeland said.
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