A Planning Project to Redesign the Delivery of Fundamentals in a Flexible Electrical and Computer Engineering Curriculum

该项目计划开发新方法，用于在卡内基梅隆大学电气与计算机工程（ECE）系高度灵活的课程中选择内容和提供核心组件。 在学生，教师，校友和行业代表的帮助下，将创建一些“用例”，说明他们的课程如何为特定领域的生产性职业提供基础，并强调社会影响。 该项目的目的是在欧洲经委会广泛的学科范围内，在灵活性和基础知识之间取得平衡，并创造手段，帮助学生更好地了解基础知识在对社会有重大影响的各种职业中的作用。 ECE课程的内容将使用图形工具进行分析，以评估构建有效的四年ECE课程的替代方案，该课程提供了基础知识的坚实基础，并可灵活地追求我们的用例所确定的机会。 为期一年的研究将导致核心课程的新结构，以及一套持续评估和改进课程的工具。 本项目将为课程设计开发两项创新。课程设计的“使用案例”方法在欧洲经委会课程的要素与专业选择之间建立了明确的联系。 它补充了将课程分解为学生不太了解的传统技术领域，并将指导选择可以最好地服务于多种目的的基本材料。 欧洲经委会课程的元素的图形分析提供了新的衡量标准，评估课程的替代组织。 将通过项目网站向其他大学提供确定和提供欧洲经委会课程基本材料的新方法和工具。我们课程的用例开发也将吸引更广泛，更多样化的学生，他们寻求对电气和计算机工程具有高社会影响的职业。 这些使用案例也将在网站上以一种有吸引力的方式提供，甚至鼓励高中指导顾问与高中生一起探索基于ECE教育的职业的可能性。

This project is planning to develop new methods for selecting the content and delivering core components in the highly flexible curriculum of the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department at Carnegie Mellon University. With the help of students, faculty, alumni and industry representatives, a number of "use cases" will be created that illustrate how their curriculum can provide the foundation for productive careers in specific fields, with an emphasis on social impact. The project aims to develop a balance between flexibility and fundamentals within the broad discipline of ECE, and create means to help students better understand the role of fundamentals in a wide variety of careers that have significant impact on society. The content of ECE curricula will be analyzed using graphical tools to evaluate alternatives for structuring an effective four-year ECE curriculum that offers a solid foundation in the fundamentals with the flexibility to pursue opportunities identified by our use cases. The one-year study will lead to a new structure for the core courses, and a set of tools for continuing evaluation and improvement of the curriculum. Intellectual Merit This project will develop two innovations for curriculum design. The "use case" approach to curriculum design creates clear connections between elements of an ECE curriculum and profession options. It complements the decomposition of the curriculum into traditional technical areas that are not well understood by students, and will guide the selection of fundamental material that can serve best multiple ends. The graphical analysis of the elements of the ECE curriculum provides novel metrics for evaluating alternative organizations of the curriculum. Broader Impacts The novel methods and tools for identifying and delivering fundamental material in an ECE curriculum will be made available to other universities through the project web site. The development of use cases for our curriculum will also attract a broader, more diverse set of students who seek careers with high social impact into electrical and computer engineering. The use cases will also be available on the web site in an attractive way that encourages even high school guidance counselors to explore with high school students the possibilities for careers based on an ECE education.