Integrated System-Level Design in Electrical Engineering

这是犹他大学电气与计算机工程系系级改革的计划拨款。在这个项目中，犹他大学欧洲经委会项目中已经很强的实验室部分将通过开发系统级设计项目来加强，这些项目将集成到单个课程中，也将跨越多个课程。这建立在该部门的特殊优势之上，该部门已经拥有一流的工业赞助高级设计序列和一些具有强大系统设计项目的课程。通过这一变化，预计将(1)增加学生的招募和保留（包括可能不会选择或留在工程专业的不同学生），(2)增加学生的动机（系统设计项目很有趣），(3)增加知识的获取和保留（因为你不能忘记你需要在学期结束时整合的东西，也许下学期也一样），(4)培养对系统级设计的理解（在我们和其他传统工程课程中，这方面的正式培训非常有限）。该提案的新颖之处包括项目本身，课程中整合多个课程的方法和概念，以及评估和实施这些项目的方法。本科生、研究生和教师将共同努力，在我们系内建立这个新项目。

This is a planning grant for department level reform at the University of Utah, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. In this project, the already strong laboratory component within the ECE program at the University of Utah will be enhanced by developing system-level design projects to be integrated within individual courses and also spanning multiple courses. This builds on a particular strength of the department, which already has a top-notch industrially-sponsored senior design sequence a few courses with strong system design projects. Through this change, it is expected to (1) increase student recruitment and retention (including diverse students who might otherwise not have chosen or stayed in engineering), (2) increase student motivation (system design projects are FUN), (3) increase knowledge acquisition and retention (because you can't forget something that you need to integrate at the end of the semester and perhaps next semester too), and (4) develop system-level design understanding (the formal training of which is very limited within ours and other traditional engineering curricula).The novel aspects of this proposal include the projects themselves, the methods and concepts of integrating multiple classes within the curriculum, and the methods to assess and implement these projects. Undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty will work together to build this new program within our department.