Collaborative Research: A Systems-Centric Foundation for Electrical and Computer Engineering Education

协作研究：以系统为中心的电气和计算机工程教育基础

• 批准号: 1140852
• 负责人: Paul Flikkema
• 金额: $ 2.5万
• 依托单位: Northern Arizona University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-10-01 至 2015-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1140852&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Systems; Centric; Foundation

PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS:Northern Arizona UniversityUniversity of Vermont & State Agricultural CollegeUniversity of South FloridaUniversity of HawaiiUniversity of Minnesota-Twin CitiesPROJECT DESCRIPTIONThis project is developing an educational model that pioneers the integration of circuits and systems concepts, forming a new set of conceptual cornerstones for electrical and computer engineering (ECE) students. The goal is to motivate and enrich the learning experience in a fundamental ECE course, Circuits, by connecting its topics to relevant and compelling challenges; while simultaneously introducing students to underlying systems-thinking principles.The effort is designing a systems-centric educational model for electrical and computing engineering courses in the context of developing electronic solutions for applied problems. The project focus is on three broad areas of health, energy, and environment, all of which are of great importance and provide students with engaging, relevant application arenas. Prototype learning modules are being developed for use in Circuits courses to increase student interest and improve their ability to think in terms of complex systems.BROADER SIGNIFICANCEThe multi-university partnership brings expertise in multiple disciplines of electrical engineering. The project team has prior experience in offering this systems-centric approach and producing positive results in a wireless sensor network design curriculum. This effort allows the team to extend and further test this promising approach at a lower academic level in another course area, which can lead to a model that can be scaled. The five institutions involved in the project are coordinating and implementing the effort across a diverse set of engineering student populations and locations, thus offering the potential for broad exposure and impact. The project is creating a model for how to develop engineering course material that can be adapted for use by a wide range of universities that are not limited by geographical constraints.

参与组织：佛蒙特州北部大学大学和国家农业大学大学，明尼苏达州夏威夷佛罗里达州南部佛罗里达州的大学，这是一个开发一个教育模型，该项目正在开发一个教育模型，该模型促进了电路和系统概念的整合，从而形成了概念性的概念性的概念性的电子和计算机的学生（ece and Compertic Element eque and Compertic Elemering（Ece）。目的是通过将其主题与相关和引人注目的挑战联系起来，激励和丰富Circuits的基本ECE课程中的学习经验；在同时向学生介绍基础系统的原则。这项工作是在为应用问题开发电子解决方案的背景下设计了一个以系统为中心的电气和计算工程课程的教育模型。该项目的重点是健康，能源和环境的三个广泛领域，所有这些领域都非常重要，并为学生提供了引人入胜的相关应用领域。正在开发原型学习模块，用于在电路课程中使用，以提高学生的兴趣并提高其在复杂系统方面的思考能力。BROADER显着的多元大学合作伙伴关系在电气工程的多个学科中具有专业知识。项目团队在提供这种以系统为中心的方法并在无线传感器网络设计课程中产生积极成果的经验。这项工作使团队可以在另一个课程领域的较低的学术水平上扩展并进一步测试这种有希望的方法，这可以导致可以扩展的模型。该项目所涉及的五个机构正在协调和实施各种工程学生人口和地点的努力，从而提供了广泛的曝光和影响力的潜力。该项目正在为如何开发工程课程材料创建一个模型，该模型可以由不受地理约束限制的广泛大学使用。