Multidisciplinary Learning through Implementation of the DVB-S2 Standard

Telecommunication standards are documents that contain consolidated knowledge about communication systems and implementation best practices as they are created based on long consensus processes in order to meet practical constraints. This paper describes how the DVB-S2 standard is used in the electrical engineering curricula at KU Leuven within a design and implementation course called EAGLE. The goal of the course is to teach third year bachelor students how to apply the abstract knowledge gathered in the theoretical courses (control theory, communication theory, software and hardware) to the design of a complex and real engineering project. Based on their progress during the academic year, we illustrate how education through standards can support such a broad skill set and act as an accelerator to abstract system implementation complexity while focusing on relevant details. We give an overview of the objectives of the EAGLE project and the relevance of the DVB-S2 standard, the design and implementation task that the students need to accomplish and how they finally learn to master the complexity of a real communication standard, VHDL coding and system verification and integration.

Publication year:2017

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