Teaching Labs/1003 EB2

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EB II 1003 is better known as the Troxler Design Center, used for students to work on their ECE Senior Design projects. The Troxler Center gets its name from William Troxler, who donated $157,000 to completely renovate one of the ECE laboratory's. His donation marked the first time an individual had donated money to entirely renovate a lab or a facility. The Troxler Center was opened on November 12, 1997 by Mr. Troxler himself. Mr. Troxler attended North Carolina State University. In 1962 got a B.S. in Electrical Engineering. Since then he has turned the company he created, Troxler Electronic Laboratories Inc., into a large, international corporation. Following the move, the Troxler Design Center was given a state-of-the-art room, giving students much more workspace to complete their projects and updating all the monitors to flat panels as well.

The ECE Senior Design projects are very simple in nature. A group of students is given small description of product concept, and then must create that product. They get resources from company donations and others they purchase at local stores. At then end of the semester, the students must present the project along with a project report for a grade. The Troxler Design Center is available for students to work on their Senior Design Projects when needed. Each Senior Design group is assigned a workstation with a computer. Aside from there workstations, 9 oscilloscopes, 5 power supplies, 2 multimeters, a sweep generator, and a function generator are available for each student to use. There are many workstations in the Troxler Center, as well as a large workbench area for a group collaborations.

Lab Schedule

To schedule this lab, email ecehelp@ncsu.edu.

Equipment

Model Dell Dimension 4600
Processor Pentium 4 3.4 GHz
RAM 1024 MB
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Number of Computers 18
Software
Symantec Antivirus 10
Wolfcall 1.2.1/AFS/Kerberos
PDF Factory Pro 2.40
Microsoft Office 2003 SP2
Microsoft Logoff Screensaver
Acrobat Reader 7.0.3
X-win32 6.1.1/PuTTy 0.55
Ultimate Zip 2.7.1
TecPlot 10
Project 2003 SP2
Visio 2003 SP2
GhostScript/GhostView 8.51
JDK 1.5.0.4
Macromedia Flash Player 8.0.22.0
Macromedia Shockwave Player 10.1.0.11
Quicktime Player 6.5.2
RealPlayer 10.5
WinSCP 3.71
Matlab 7.1
Condor Client (Run Only) 6.6.10 
GIMP 2.0.1
JMP 5.1.1
Maple 9.03
Cadence PSD 15.1.061 
PSPICE Student Edition 9.1
Visual Slickedit 9.0
Visual Studio .NET 2003
Labview 7.1 
Printer HP Laserjet 4
Equipment
18 Dell Flat Panel Monitors 
5 BK Precision 20 MHz Oscilloscopes - Model 12120 
3 Agilent 54622D 100 MHz Oscilloscopes
4 Agilent E3603A Triple Output Power Supplies
1 Fluke 8000A Digital Multimeter
2 Fluke 8050A Digital Multimeter
2 Tektronix 11 MHz CFG280 Function Generator
1 Wavetek 134 Sweep Generator
1 Tektronix PS280 Power Supply
1 HP 7662A Logic Analyzer

Room Layout

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