A Holistic Approach to Transforming Undergraduate Electrical Engineering Education
A Holistic Approach to Transforming Undergraduate Electrical Engineering Education
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转变本科电气工程教育的整体方法
作者：
A. A. Maciejewski;Thomas W. Chen;Zinta S. Byrne;Michael A. de Miranda;L. S. Mcmeeking;B. Notaroš;A. Pezeshki;Sourajeet Roy;Andrea M. Leland;Melissa D. Reese;A. H. Rosales;T. Siller;Richard F. Toftness;O. Notaros
我们在科罗拉多州立大学的多元化教育工作者团队正在重新定义在电气和计算机工程系教和学意味着什么。在国家科学基金会为期五年的“RED”资助的支持下，我们实际上是在放弃课程，以克服当前工程教育体系的挑战。从整体的角度接近度，我们不再把我们的程序作为一套独立的（和孤立的）教师教的不同的课程，但作为一个综合系统，促进教师和学生之间的合作。本文介绍了我们新的组织和教学模式，强调知识整合和交织在整个课程的主题内容线程。我们还介绍了我们实施新方法的过程，沿着我们在这一过程中取得的成功和遇到的挑战。通过这个项目，我们努力成为工程教育变革的催化剂。
Our diverse team of educators at Colorado State University are redefining what it means to teach and learn in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Supported by a five-year “RED” grant from the National Science Foundation, we are, in effect, throwing away courses to overcome the challenges of the current engineering educational system. Approaching the degree from a holistic perspective, we no longer view our program as a set of disparate courses taught by autonomous (and isolated) faculty, but as an integrated system that fosters collaboration among faculty and students. This paper describes our new organizational and pedagogical model, which emphasizes knowledge integration and interweaves thematic content threads throughout the curriculum. We also share our process for implementing the new approach, along with the successes and challenges that we have experienced along the way. Through this project, we strive to become a catalyst for change in engineering education.