Equipment for ICED - Integrated Computer-Engineering Design Curriculum

该项目购买了实验室设备，以实现新的本科计算机工程(CE)专业课程。传统的CE课程由不同的课程组成，这些课程很难统一关键主题，不允许学生发展批判性能力。电气和计算机工程系通过新的CE课程来补救这些弊病。课程的核心是设计一个非常复杂的数字系统：一个计算机网络，特别是包括一台完全由每个学生构建的带有硬件和重要系统软件的计算机。这个项目涵盖了每个本科生过去三年学习的课程。本课程允许以全新的方式强调对基础工程的理解，这在较短时间的项目中是不能发展的。学生了解设计决策是如何随着时间的推移发挥作用的，他们使用标准的模拟和综合工具使用复杂的设计技术，并进行复杂的软件/硬件权衡。这一统一的纵向集成计算机工程设计(ICE)课程已经规划了几年。它已经被这所大学广泛接受。ICE可以通过在毕业前和毕业后对参加原有(当前)课程或新(ICE)课程的CE学生进行调查来评估ICE，衡量ICE的影响和效果。

This project purchases laboratory equipment to realize a novel undergraduate Computer Engineering (CE) major curriculum. Traditional CE curricula are composed of disparate courses that poorly unify key themes and do not allow students to develop critical abilities. The Electrical and Computer Engineering department remedies these ills with a new CE curriculum. The centerpiece of the curriculum is the design of a richly complex digital system: a network of computers including, particularly, a computer with hardware and important system software built entirely by each student. This project spans the courses taken for the past 3 years of each undergraduate's studies. This curriculum allows a novel emphasis on fundamental engineering understanding, which cannot be developed in projects of shorter duration. Students develop an understanding of how design decisions play out over time, they employ sophisticated design techniques using standard simulation and synthesis tools, and they make complex software/hardware tradeoffs. This unified, longitudinal Integrated Computer Engineering Design (ICED) curriculum has been planned over several years. It has been broadly accepted by the university. ICED can be evaluated with surveys of CE students involved in either the original (current) curriculum or the new (ICED) curriculum, both before and after graduation, measuring ICED's impact and efficacy.