Creating an ECE Curriculum Combining Theory with Experiments and Research

一个项目将计划更新通用核心课程(目前是9门课程)，这些课程将导致弗吉尼亚理工大学获得学士学位和学士学位。大约900名本科生，大约各占一半，这两个学位项目将受到影响。在新课程的整个开发过程中，将实现两个目标。首先，课程将在技术上扎实并有逻辑地组织，以指导大量学生通过这两个学位轨道，每个都有广泛的专业范围。第二，将引入已知的和经过测试的教学方法，以及“学习社区”的概念，这将有助于为进入学生提供更共同的背景，以确保多样化的学生群体有平等的机会，并鼓励优秀的学习，无论学生的学习风格如何。这些任务的支持将由本科生教学中的Excel中心和大学荣誉计划提供。拟议核心课程的成功开发将通过吸引杰出的妇女和代表性不足的少数群体进入欧洲经委会系来加强研究和教育的VT基础设施，并将为所有进入该系的学生提供提高学业成绩的机会，办法是在他们开始核心课程中更具分析性的课程之前提供一个共同的背景，并重点调整在整个核心课程中处理多种学习风格的教学方法。

A project will plan to renovate the common core curriculum (currently nine courses) that leads to the BSEE and BSCpE degrees at Virginia Tech. Approximately 900 undergraduates students, split roughly 50:50 between the two degree programs will be affected. Throughout the development of the new curriculum, two goals will be addressed. First, the curriculum will be technically solid and logically organized to guide a large number of students through both degree tracks, each with a wide range of spe-cializations. Second, known and tested pedagogical methodologies, as well as the concept of "Learning Communities" that will assist in providing a more common background for entering students, will be in-troduced to assure equal opportunities for a diverse student body and to encourage excellence of learning, regardless of the student's learning style. Support for these tasks will be provided by the Center for Excel-lence in Undergraduate Teaching and by the University Honors Program. Successful development of the proposed core curriculum will enhance the VT infrastructure for research and education by attracting out-standing women and under-represented minorities to the ECE Department and it will provide the oppor-tunity for all students entering the Department to improve their academic performance by providing a common background before they begin the more analytical courses in the core curriculum and by empha-sizing pedagogical methodologies that addresses multiple learning styles throughout the core curriculum.