Optimizing the Interdisciplinary Course: Introduction to Electrical Engineering (EE) for Non-EE Majors

优化跨学科课程：非EE专业电气工程概论

• 批准号: 0415962
• 负责人: Seyed Zekavat
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Michigan Technological University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-09-01 至 2009-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0415962&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Optimizing; Interdisciplinary; Course; Introduction; Electrical

The intellectual merit of this project is its novel approach to optimize an essential interdisciplinary course. It will create a prototype curriculum available to electrical engineering departments that are charged with providing an introduction to electrical engineering for non-EE majors. The new curriculum will: (1) be attractive, motivational, and relevant to students; (2) provide the optimal level of both range and depth of coverage of EE topics in a curriculum package, and (3) be inexpensive to implement and cost effective for both universities and students. And, although this is not a primary focus of the project, the strategies used, the methodology of developing the new curriculum, and the testing methods may help professionals in other fields who want to examine the relevancy of their coursework.The broader impacts of this project include development and dissemination of a curriculum package and model that should be useful to all engineering education programs nationally. With an EE background relevant to their particular disciplines, students will be able to work more cooperatively with engineers from other disciplines. This project opens the door to change the way engineering is taught to non-EE engineering majors. The process and the resulting model can serve as a catalyst that prompts engineering educators to find the best ways to teach EE concepts to multidiscipline non-EE engineering students.The outcome of this project will be the full development and design of a novel and innovative EE curriculum package that includes a course textbook, the laboratory coursework, and the course web-based teaching modules for most non-EE engineering fields. Both fundamental engineering knowledge and topics on emerging technologies will be incorporated into the curriculum.

该项目的智力价值在于其优化重要跨学科课程的新颖方法。它将创建一个原型课程提供给电气工程部门负责提供非电气工程专业的电气工程介绍。新课程将：（1）有吸引力，动机，并与学生相关;（2）在课程包中提供EE主题覆盖范围和深度的最佳水平，以及（3）实施成本低，对大学和学生都具有成本效益。而且，虽然这不是一个项目的主要重点，所使用的策略，开发新课程的方法，和测试方法可以帮助专业人士在其他领域谁想要检查他们的课程的相关性。这个项目的更广泛的影响包括开发和传播的课程包和模型，应该是有用的全国所有工程教育计划。与相关的特定学科的EE背景，学生将能够与其他学科的工程师更合作。这个项目打开了大门，改变工程的方式教非电子工程专业。该过程和由此产生的模型可以作为一种催化剂，促使工程教育工作者找到最好的方法来教EE概念，多学科非EE engineering students. Results的这个项目将是一个新颖的和创新的EE课程包，包括一个课程教材，实验室课程，并为大多数非EE工程领域的课程基于网络的教学模块的全面发展和设计。基础工程知识和新兴技术主题都将纳入课程。