Integrated System-Level Design in Electrical Engineering

这是犹他大学电气和计算机工程系系级改革的规划拨款。在这个项目中，犹他大学欧洲经委会方案中已经很强大的实验室部分将通过开发系统级设计项目得到加强，这些项目将整合到各个课程中，并跨越多个课程。这是建立在该系的一个特殊优势的基础上的，该系已经拥有一流的工业赞助的高级设计序列和几门具有强大系统设计项目的课程。通过这一变化，预计将(1)增加招生和留住学生(包括原本可能不会选择或留在工程专业的不同学生)，(2)增加学生的积极性(系统设计项目很有趣)，(3)增加知识的获取和留存(因为你不能忘记在学期末甚至下学期也需要整合的东西)，以及(4)发展系统级设计理解(在我们的课程和其他传统工程课程中，对系统级设计的正式培训非常有限)。这项提议的新方面包括项目本身，在课程中整合多个班级的方法和概念，以及评估和实施这些项目的方法。本科生、研究生和教职员工将共同努力，在我们系内建立这个新的项目。

This is a planning grant for department level reform at the University of Utah, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. In this project, the already strong laboratory component within the ECE program at the University of Utah will be enhanced by developing system-level design projects to be integrated within individual courses and also spanning multiple courses. This builds on a particular strength of the department, which already has a top-notch industrially-sponsored senior design sequence a few courses with strong system design projects. Through this change, it is expected to (1) increase student recruitment and retention (including diverse students who might otherwise not have chosen or stayed in engineering), (2) increase student motivation (system design projects are FUN), (3) increase knowledge acquisition and retention (because you can't forget something that you need to integrate at the end of the semester and perhaps next semester too), and (4) develop system-level design understanding (the formal training of which is very limited within ours and other traditional engineering curricula).The novel aspects of this proposal include the projects themselves, the methods and concepts of integrating multiple classes within the curriculum, and the methods to assess and implement these projects. Undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty will work together to build this new program within our department.