Design of Consumer Electronics Course

9451387汉纳福特工程教育正经历着一个快速变革的时期。美国工业需要能够设计出在日益咄咄逼人的全球市场上具有竞争力的质量和性能的产品的工程师。有一种感觉是，将机械、电气、工业和计算机工程师分成不同的小组，可能只会产生局部最优设计。在教育方面，“工程学科”对单一学生分析的传统强调正在让位于跨学科、以设计团队为导向的教育。考虑到这些全球趋势，我们建议开设一门新的以实验室为基础的课程，“消费电子设计”，以满足华盛顿大学工程学院对跨学科、以设计团队为导向的教育的需求。我们要求提供资金来开发这门课程，向其他机构传播课程内容和形式，并鼓励和汇编来自威斯康星大学和其他机构不同教职员工的更多课程材料。

9451387 Hannaford Engineering Education is undergoing a period of rapid change. American industry needs engineers who can design products which are competitive in quality and performance in an increasingly aggressive global market place. There is a sense that dividing Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, and Computer engineers into separate compartments may produce only locally optimal designs. In education, the traditional emphasis on single-student analysis within an "Engineering Discipline" is giving way to interdisciplinary, design-team oriented education. With these global trends in mind, we propose a new laboratory-based course, "Design of Consumer Electronics," to address the need for interdisciplinary, design-team oriented education within the College of Engineering at the University of Washington. We request funding to develop this course, to disseminate the course content and format to other institutions, and to encourage and compile an expanding collection of curricular materials from among a diverse group of faculty at UW and other institutions.