Development and Evaluation of Design-Oriented Electrical Engineering Lower Division Laboratory Materials

工程低部实验室材料学院西 弗吉尼亚大学、威斯康星州-普拉特维尔大学，以及 科罗拉多矿业学院正在解决的批评 工程教育，它是薄弱的设计，而 培养擅长分析的工程师，缺乏 设计、合成和评价。 许多教育家建议 改变课程和教学方法， 将这些技能整合回学习体验中。 虽然许多创新都有其优点，而且效果很好， 其他地方的开发人员、教育工作者经常遇到困难， 将它们融入到特定的环境中。的 教师们正在开发低年级的电气工程 设计为导向的实验室材料，并计划评估其 在三个不同的课程环境中的有效性。 一本关于实验室设计练习的学生小册子和一本 随附的教师手册，详细描述了如何 一个以设计为导向的实验室正在从 最成功的草稿材料。 的材料 将实验室从相对被动的 验证成熟理论的知识经验 一种积极的智力体验， 设备、电路和系统。 学生材料是 在教练的广泛帮助下， 材料的设计和评估， 课程结构，使他们广泛使用。

Engineering Lower Division Laboratory MaterialsFaculty at West Virginia University, University of Wisconsin - Platteville, and Colorado School of Mines are addressing the criticism of engineering education that it is weak in design, and while producing engineers who excel at analysis, lack skills in design, synthesis and evaluation. Many educators propose changes in curricula and instructional methods aimed to integrate these skills back into the learning experience. While many innovations have merit and work well for their developers, educators elsewhere often experience difficulty incorporating them into their particular environment. The faculty are developing lower-division electrical engineering design oriented laboratory materials and plan to evaluate their effectiveness in three very different curricular environments. A student booklet of laboratory design exercises and an accompanying instructor's manual describing in detail how to conduct a design-oriented laboratory is being developed from the most broadly successful draft materials. The materials transform the laboratory from the relatively passive intellectual experience of verifying well established theories to an active intellectual experience creating functional devices, circuits, and systems. The student materials are heavily supported by extensive aids for the instructor, and all materials are designed for and evaluated within disparate curricular structures to make them broadly useful.