1. Electronics Workbench: An electronics design and simulation software package This commercial software is used as a formative tool, to provide underpinning for a wide range of Stage 1 & Stage 2 modules in a student-centred learning environment:- • provides a means of understanding circuit principles and operations by interactive use of the available measurement tools (similar to real laboratory instruments) • supports tutorial problem-solving, by allowing trial and error approaches to complement theoretical solution methods • helps development of troubleshooting skills and techniques • provides a springboard for circuit design, thus facilitating future individual project work The take-up and ownership is very high:- • due to the School making available 100 copies of the package for students to use at home • self-study lab sheets being available on the web Create to Calculate Simulate to Stimulate Practically at Home Electronics Workbench or, how to establish solutions to tutorial problems or, how to aid understanding of electrical circuits or, how to confirm practical results - at home Tony Rees, Paul Filmore, Alan Simpson: School of Electronic, Communication & Electrical Engineering, For more information, see http://www.tech.plym.ac.uk/see/scl/