Collaborative Research: A Systems-Centric Foundation for Electrical and Computer Engineering Education

协作研究：以系统为中心的电气和计算机工程教育基础

• 批准号: 1140852
• 负责人: Paul Flikkema
• 金额: $ 2.5万
• 依托单位: Northern Arizona University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-10-01 至 2015-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1140852&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Systems; Centric; Foundation

PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS:Northern Arizona UniversityUniversity of Vermont & State Agricultural CollegeUniversity of South FloridaUniversity of HawaiiUniversity of Minnesota-Twin CitiesPROJECT DESCRIPTIONThis project is developing an educational model that pioneers the integration of circuits and systems concepts, forming a new set of conceptual cornerstones for electrical and computer engineering (ECE) students. The goal is to motivate and enrich the learning experience in a fundamental ECE course, Circuits, by connecting its topics to relevant and compelling challenges; while simultaneously introducing students to underlying systems-thinking principles.The effort is designing a systems-centric educational model for electrical and computing engineering courses in the context of developing electronic solutions for applied problems. The project focus is on three broad areas of health, energy, and environment, all of which are of great importance and provide students with engaging, relevant application arenas. Prototype learning modules are being developed for use in Circuits courses to increase student interest and improve their ability to think in terms of complex systems.BROADER SIGNIFICANCEThe multi-university partnership brings expertise in multiple disciplines of electrical engineering. The project team has prior experience in offering this systems-centric approach and producing positive results in a wireless sensor network design curriculum. This effort allows the team to extend and further test this promising approach at a lower academic level in another course area, which can lead to a model that can be scaled. The five institutions involved in the project are coordinating and implementing the effort across a diverse set of engineering student populations and locations, thus offering the potential for broad exposure and impact. The project is creating a model for how to develop engineering course material that can be adapted for use by a wide range of universities that are not limited by geographical constraints.

参与机构：北方亚利桑那大学佛蒙特州立农业学院南佛罗里达大学夏威夷大学明尼苏达大学双城分校项目简介该项目正在开发一种教育模式，开创了电路和系统概念的整合，为电气和计算机工程（ECE）学生形成了一套新的概念基石。其目标是通过将其主题与相关和紧迫的挑战联系起来，激励和丰富ECE基础课程“电路”的学习经验;同时向学生介绍基本的系统思维原则，努力为电气和计算工程课程设计一个以系统为中心的教育模式，为应用问题开发电子解决方案。该项目的重点是健康，能源和环境的三个广泛领域，所有这些都非常重要，并为学生提供引人入胜的相关应用领域。正在开发用于电路课程的原型学习模块，以提高学生的兴趣，并提高他们在复杂系统方面的思考能力。更广泛的意义多所大学的合作伙伴关系带来了电气工程多个学科的专业知识。该项目团队在提供这种以系统为中心的方法和在无线传感器网络设计课程中产生积极的结果方面具有先前的经验。这一努力使团队能够在另一个课程领域的较低学术水平上扩展和进一步测试这种有前途的方法，这可以导致一个可以扩展的模型。参与该项目的五个机构正在协调和实施各种工程学生群体和地点的努力，从而提供了广泛的曝光和影响的潜力。该项目正在创建一个模式，说明如何编制工程课程材料，使之能够适应不受地域限制的各种大学的使用。