Equipment for ICED - Integrated Computer-Engineering Design Curriculum

本课题为实现计算机工程（CE）本科专业新课程而采购实验设备。传统的CE课程由不同的课程组成，这些课程很难统一关键主题，也不允许学生发展关键能力。电气与计算机工程系用新的CE课程弥补了这些弊端。课程的核心是设计一个非常复杂的数字系统：一个计算机网络，特别是一台计算机的硬件和重要的系统软件，完全由每个学生构建。这个项目涵盖了每个本科生过去三年的课程。本课程新颖地强调基础的工程理解，这在短期项目中是不可能发展的。学生们了解设计决策是如何随着时间的推移而发挥作用的，他们使用标准的模拟和合成工具采用复杂的设计技术，并进行复杂的软件/硬件权衡。这种统一的纵向集成计算机工程设计（ICED）课程已经计划了好几年。它已被大学广泛接受。ice可以通过对CE学生在毕业前和毕业后参与原始（当前）课程或新（ice）课程的调查来评估，以衡量ice的影响和有效性。

This project purchases laboratory equipment to realize a novel undergraduate Computer Engineering (CE) major curriculum. Traditional CE curricula are composed of disparate courses that poorly unify key themes and do not allow students to develop critical abilities. The Electrical and Computer Engineering department remedies these ills with a new CE curriculum. The centerpiece of the curriculum is the design of a richly complex digital system: a network of computers including, particularly, a computer with hardware and important system software built entirely by each student. This project spans the courses taken for the past 3 years of each undergraduate's studies. This curriculum allows a novel emphasis on fundamental engineering understanding, which cannot be developed in projects of shorter duration. Students develop an understanding of how design decisions play out over time, they employ sophisticated design techniques using standard simulation and synthesis tools, and they make complex software/hardware tradeoffs. This unified, longitudinal Integrated Computer Engineering Design (ICED) curriculum has been planned over several years. It has been broadly accepted by the university. ICED can be evaluated with surveys of CE students involved in either the original (current) curriculum or the new (ICED) curriculum, both before and after graduation, measuring ICED's impact and efficacy.