Theme-Based Redesign of the ECE Undergraduate Curriculum at Duke University

该项目正在为杜克大学的学生开发尽可能最好的本科课程，并通过精简整个欧洲经委会课程并以学生为重点进行更新，为同行机构提供了一个模式。这一努力的目标是保持课程的灵活性，同时采用以主题为基础的结构，侧重于主要概念和原则，并将这一主题纳入核心领域和技术重点领域。这一主题--综合传感和信息处理--反映了欧洲经委会大多数教员活跃的研究领域，体现了在一个易于理解的现实世界框架内电气和计算机工程所有关键组成部分的关键概念，并反映了电气和计算机工程的未来。因此，它提供了一个独特的创新教育平台来教育杜克大学的学生，因此它可以成为未来几年欧洲经委会教育的典范。与这项创新课程改革工作相关的主要任务是：1)开发以主题为基础的入门课程，通过课程作业和真实世界设计项目和实验室经验介绍欧洲经委会的基本概念；2)重组核心课程，使其更加平衡，并在教学主题的构建中强调基本的欧洲经委会概念；3)修改高级技术课程的结构和/或内容，以与课程主题保持一致；4)开发新的以主题为基础的设计课程，整合在各种技术轨道上取得的核心技术能力，并利用教员积极的研究计划；5)将MatLab整合到整个课程中，以提供一个现代化的、连贯的仿真和分析平台。

This project is developing the best possible undergraduate curriculum for Duke students, and is providing a model for peer institutions by streamlining the entire ECE curriculum and updating it with particular focus on the students. The goals of this effort are to maintain curricular flexibility while introducing a theme-based structure focused on major concepts and principles, and to integrate this theme throughout the core and the technical focus areas. This theme, Integrated Sensing and Information Processing (ISIP), reflects the active research areas of the majority of the ECE faculty, embodies the key concepts of all critical components of electrical and computer engineering within an easily understandable real-world framework, and reflects the future of electrical and computer engineering. As such, it is providing a unique and innovative educational platform upon which to educate Duke students, and thus it can become a model of ECE education for years to come. The major tasks associated with this innovative curricular reform effort are: 1) Developing a theme-based introductory course that introduces fundamental concepts of ECE through coursework and a real-world design project and laboratory experience; 2) Restructuring the core curriculum so that it is more balanced and emphasizes fundamental ECE concepts within the construct of the instructional theme; 3) Modifying the structure and/or content of upper-level technical courses to be consistent with the curricular theme; 4) Developing new theme-based design courses that integrate core technical competency achieved in the various technical tracks and draw upon the active research programs of the faculty; 5) Integrating MATLAB throughout the curriculum in order to provide a modern cohesive simulation and analysis platform.