Exploring Electronics Laboratory Experiments Using Computer Software

In recent years, electronics the world over has made unprecedented growth in terms of new technologies, new ideas and principles. The rate of obsolescence of technologies also has been extremely high. Researchers, academicians, industries and the society at large have to work in unison to meet the challenges of the rapidly growing discipline. The research organizations and industries that work in this frontier area are in need of highly skilled and scientifically oriented manpower. This manpower can be available only with flexible, adaptive and progressive training programs and a cohesive interaction among the research organizations, academicians and industries. Laboratory activities must be designed to engage students' minds, so that students may acquire skill and confidence in their: • Measurement of physical quantities with appropriate accuracy. • Recognition of factors that could affect the reliability of their measurements. • Manipulations of materials, apparatus, tools, and measuring instruments. • Clear descriptions of their observations and measurements • Representation of information in appropriate verbal, pictorial, graphical, and mathematical terms • Inference and reasoning from their observations • Ability to rationally defend their conclusions and predictions • Effective and valued participation with their peers and their teacher in a cooperative intellectual enterprise