Theme-Based Redesign of the ECE Undergraduate Curriculum at Duke University

杜克大学 ECE 本科课程基于主题的重新设计

• 批准号: 0431812
• 负责人: Leslie Collins
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Duke University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-09-01 至 2008-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0431812&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Theme; Based; Redesign; ECE; Undergraduate; Theme; Based; Redesign; ECE; Undergraduate

This project is developing the best possible undergraduate curriculum for Duke students, and is providing a model for peer institutions by streamlining the entire ECE curriculum and updating it with particular focus on the students. The goals of this effort are to maintain curricular flexibility while introducing a theme-based structure focused on major concepts and principles, and to integrate this theme throughout the core and the technical focus areas. This theme, Integrated Sensing and Information Processing (ISIP), reflects the active research areas of the majority of the ECE faculty, embodies the key concepts of all critical components of electrical and computer engineering within an easily understandable real-world framework, and reflects the future of electrical and computer engineering. As such, it is providing a unique and innovative educational platform upon which to educate Duke students, and thus it can become a model of ECE education for years to come. The major tasks associated with this innovative curricular reform effort are: 1) Developing a theme-based introductory course that introduces fundamental concepts of ECE through coursework and a real-world design project and laboratory experience; 2) Restructuring the core curriculum so that it is more balanced and emphasizes fundamental ECE concepts within the construct of the instructional theme; 3) Modifying the structure and/or content of upper-level technical courses to be consistent with the curricular theme; 4) Developing new theme-based design courses that integrate core technical competency achieved in the various technical tracks and draw upon the active research programs of the faculty; 5) Integrating MATLAB throughout the curriculum in order to provide a modern cohesive simulation and analysis platform.

该项目正在为杜克大学的学生开发最好的本科课程，并通过简化整个ECE课程并特别关注学生来为同伴机构提供模型。这项工作的目标是保持课程灵活性，同时引入基于主题的结构，重点关注主要概念和原则，并在整个核心和技术重点领域中整合该主题。该主题是集成的感应和信息处理（ISIP），反映了大多数ECE教师的活跃研究领域，它在易于理解的现实世界中体现了电气和计算机工程的所有关键组成部分的关键概念，并反映了电气和计算机工程的未来。因此，它提供了一个独特而创新的教育平台，以教育杜克大学的学生，因此它可以在未来几年内成为ECE教育的典范。与这项创新的课程改革工作相关的主要任务是：1）开发基于主题的入门课程，该课程通过课程工作以及现实世界的设计项目和实验室经验引入ECE的基本概念； 2）重组核心课程，以使其更加平衡，并强调教学主题结构中的基本ECE概念； 3）修改高级技术课程的结构和/或内容与课程主题一致； 4）开发新的基于主题的设计课程，这些课程整合了各种技术轨道中获得的核心技术能力，并借鉴了教师的积极研究计划； 5）在整个课程中整合MATLAB，以提供现代的内聚力模拟和分析平台。