STEM: Teach your DSP course with the highest impact
DSP theory and the ASN Filter Designer: a great tutorial match
Teaching advanced STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) concepts, such as DSP (digital signal processing) to beginners can be tricky. That’s why we have developed our hands-on DSP course based around the ASN Filter Designer, that allows you to present DSP concepts to your students without the need for specialist hardware or complicated licensing. The ASN Filter Designer is also an invaluable tool for students, allowing them to learn by experimenting with DSP concepts at their own pace or in study groups.
The course is based on our findings that most students have some understanding of digital signal processing but get confused when they have to do the mathematics themselves. For example, with our interactive graphical Pole-Zero editor, a lecturer can explain to students the effect of the poles-zeros on the net frequency response graphically without diving into the mathematics first.
A great tutorial match for DSP theory
After you have explained the DSP theory, your students can see how the theory works in practice with ‘hands-on’ experimentation sessions. This enables your students to get a good grasp of DSP from the ground up.
Our full-package course material includes:
Lecturers can easily integrate the STEM course material into tutorial exercises or classroom examples:
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Truly hands-on that assists the steep learning curve
Because the ASN Filter Designer has an easy look-and-feel, it’s ideal for a ‘hands on’ course! Students can actually ‘play’ with DSP and see changes immediately. Instead of having to create algorithms themselves. Which, yes, teaches them how to program but less about their DSP skills.
Alternatively, the student can experiment with whatever the lecturer has already created. In this case, the students can simply experiment with the lecturer’s tutorial example without fully understanding the theory – which is ideal for the first few steps in DSP!
However, you learn the most by doing and experimenting yourself. By ‘playing’ with the ASN Filter Designer, students appreciate how their filtering algorithm impacts the end-product.
Compatible with Python, Matlab, Octave, Scilab and Labview
Furthermore, the lecturer can choose to use the ASN Filter Designer as a standalone program or in addition to other programs, such as: Python, Matlab, Octave, Scilab and Labview. The tool’s automatic code generator engine allows the ASN Filter Designer to be used as an experimental platform, generating Python, Matlab, Scilab or Octave code for the designed filter blocks. This code may then be used in the deployed domain for further analysis or building a comprehensive algorithm.
Overview DSP Course
To challenge your students and invite them to experiment, we have designed our ASN Filter Designer course into 5 modules:
Training tomorrow’s engineers
Our offering provides educators with a hassle-free way of training students in order to allow them to get a good start in working life. Students can work at their own pace and experiment with the detailed examples without the need for expensive hardware or other accessories.
The main benefits of our offering include:
For whom?
Basic knowledge of basic signal processing theory and programming is needed for fully benefiting from the course
Irresistible pricing
A low cost educational version of the designer is available, allowing academics to experiment with the examples and tailor make study material suitable for student tutorial sessions. The educational version is already available for 50 euro per a quarter – ask for our possibilities for group-licenses and educational partnerships!
Testimonials from academia
“Advanced Solutions Nederland’s biomedical workshop is a great example of how our BSc. students can get hands on involvement of an innovative product, that is set to advance the development of biomedical signal analysis and filter design.”
An outstanding digital filter design application that appears to be the Swiss Army Knife of filter design software packages.
