Theme-Based Redesign of the ECE Undergraduate Curriculum at Duke University

杜克大学 ECE 本科课程基于主题的重新设计

• 批准号: 0431812
• 负责人: Leslie Collins
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Duke 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 2008-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0431812&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Theme; Based; Redesign; ECE; Undergraduate

This project is developing the best possible undergraduate curriculum for Duke students, and is providing a model for peer institutions by streamlining the entire ECE curriculum and updating it with particular focus on the students. The goals of this effort are to maintain curricular flexibility while introducing a theme-based structure focused on major concepts and principles, and to integrate this theme throughout the core and the technical focus areas. This theme, Integrated Sensing and Information Processing (ISIP), reflects the active research areas of the majority of the ECE faculty, embodies the key concepts of all critical components of electrical and computer engineering within an easily understandable real-world framework, and reflects the future of electrical and computer engineering. As such, it is providing a unique and innovative educational platform upon which to educate Duke students, and thus it can become a model of ECE education for years to come. The major tasks associated with this innovative curricular reform effort are: 1) Developing a theme-based introductory course that introduces fundamental concepts of ECE through coursework and a real-world design project and laboratory experience; 2) Restructuring the core curriculum so that it is more balanced and emphasizes fundamental ECE concepts within the construct of the instructional theme; 3) Modifying the structure and/or content of upper-level technical courses to be consistent with the curricular theme; 4) Developing new theme-based design courses that integrate core technical competency achieved in the various technical tracks and draw upon the active research programs of the faculty; 5) Integrating MATLAB throughout the curriculum in order to provide a modern cohesive simulation and analysis platform.

该项目正在为杜克大学的学生制定尽可能最好的本科课程，并通过精简整个欧洲经委会课程并特别以学生为重点对其进行更新，为同行机构提供一个模式。这一努力的目标是保持课程的灵活性，同时引入一个以主要概念和原则为重点的主题结构，并将这一主题纳入整个核心和技术重点领域。该主题“集成传感和信息处理”（ISIP）反映了大多数欧洲经济委员会教师的活跃研究领域，在易于理解的现实世界框架内体现了电气和计算机工程所有关键组件的关键概念，并反映了电气和计算机工程的未来。因此，它提供了一个独特的和创新的教育平台上，教育杜克学生，因此它可以成为一个模式的早期教育在未来几年。与这一创新课程改革努力有关的主要任务是：⑴开发一个以主题为基础的入门课程，通过课程作业、实际设计项目和实验室经验介绍欧洲经委会的基本概念; ⑵调整核心课程，使其更加平衡，并在教学主题的结构内强调欧洲经委会的基本概念; 3）修改上层技术课程的结构和/或内容，以符合课程主题; 4）开发新的基于主题的设计课程，整合在各种技术轨道上实现的核心技术能力，并借鉴教师的积极研究计划; 5）在整个课程中集成MATLAB，以提供一个现代的内聚仿真和分析平台。