Teaching and research complement each other. This is
an advice often given to young professors, to encourage
them to find synergy between research and teaching, i.e., to
let research aid teaching, and vice-versa. When a professor
develops new laboratory experiments for undergraduate
courses in wireless communications, he/she may find it
difficult to replicate research experiments, because they
require expensive equipment, usually available in
“research, non-teaching” laboratories. In this paper, we
present a wireless laboratory that is used for both research
and teaching. We show how the research on fifth
generation (5G) cellular networks - including millimeter
wave transmission, ultra-wideband wireless
communications, and multiple-input-single-output (MISO)
antennas – helped develop laboratory experiments for
undergraduate engineering students. The experiments not
only teach students about 5G technologies, but also how to
use real-time spectrum analyzers, vector signal generators,
arbitrary waveform generators, and signal analyzers, which
will help their engineering and/or research careers.Cockrell School of Engineerin