A Discovery-Based First Year Electrical and Computer Engineering Course Emphasizing Real-World Projects that Benefit Society

工程-电气（55）该项目正在为一个以发现为基础的第一年电气和计算机工程课程编写学习材料和教学战略。它的目的是通过动手，以团队为基础的项目，解决现实世界的问题，其解决方案有利于社会，以提高一年级学生的保留和满意度。学生与不同的教师的广泛合作伙伴关系互动，因为他们发现电气和计算机工程问题的重要性，并分享他们的创造性解决方案的兴奋。用于生物医学应用的信号和图像处理、电力系统可靠性以及用于环境监测的无线传感器网络是该材料中使用的当前问题领域的示例。教师专业发展活动和与社区学院的合作正在发展教师的专业知识和传播教育创新成分。该项目包括外展活动，将课程转移到社区大学，并与社区大学和高中学生、教师、指导顾问和家长一起提供实践示范访问。评价工作由学院驻地评价专家领导，利用学生调查、重点小组和访谈来监测学生的信心和满意度;其他调查也被用来评估外联和教师发展活动的成效。更广泛的影响包括教学材料和学习策略的传播，特别努力提高招聘，保留，并在代表性不足的群体的学生的满意度，并推广到社区学院和高中社区。

Engineering - Electrical (55)The project is developing learning materials and teaching strategies for a discovery-based, first-year electrical and computer engineering course. It is being designed to increase the retention and satisfaction of first-year students through hands-on, team-based projects that address real-world problems whose solutions benefit society. The students interact with an extensive partnership of diverse faculty members as they discover the importance of electrical and computer engineering problems and share in the excitement of their creative solutions. Signal and image processing for biomedical applications, power system reliability, and wireless sensor networks for environmental monitoring are examples of current problem areas used in the material. Faculty professional development activities and collaboration with community colleges are developing faculty expertise and disseminating educational innovations components. The project includes outreach activities to transfer the course to community colleges and to provide hands-on demonstration visits with community college and high school students, teachers, guidance counselors, and parents. Evaluation efforts, which are led by the College's resident evaluation expert, use student surveys, focus groups, and interviews to monitor the students' confidence and satisfaction; other surveys are being used to assess the effectiveness of the outreach and faculty development activities. The broader impacts include dissemination of the instructional material and learning strategies, special efforts to increase the recruitment, retention, and satisfaction of students in underrepresented groups, and outreach to the community college and high school communities.