Design of Consumer Electronics Course

汉纳福德工程教育正在经历一个快速变化的时期。美国工业需要能够在日益激烈的全球市场上设计出具有质量和性能竞争力的产品的工程师。有一种感觉是，将机械、电气、工业和计算机工程师划分为不同的部门可能只会产生局部最优的设计。在教育方面，传统上强调“工程学科”中单个学生的分析正在让位于跨学科的、以设计团队为导向的教育。考虑到这些全球趋势，我们提出了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、设计团队为导向的教育的需求。我们请求资金来开发这门课程，将课程内容和格式传播给其他机构，并鼓励和编辑来自华盛顿大学和其他机构的不同教师群体的课程材料。

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.