A Planning Project to Redesign the Delivery of Fundamentals in a Flexible Electrical and Computer Engineering Curriculum

该项目计划开发新的方法，在卡内基梅隆大学电气和计算机工程(欧洲经委会)系高度灵活的课程中选择内容和提供核心组成部分。在学生、教职员工、校友和行业代表的帮助下，我们将创建一些“用例”，说明他们的课程如何为在特定领域从事富有成效的职业奠定基础，并强调社会影响。该项目的目的是在幼儿教育的广泛学科范围内，在灵活性和基础知识之间取得平衡，并创造手段，帮助学生更好地了解基础知识在对社会有重大影响的各种职业中的作用。将使用图形工具对欧洲经委会课程的内容进行分析，以评价用于构建有效的四年期欧洲经委会课程的备选方案，该课程为基础奠定坚实的基础，并灵活地追求我们的用例所确定的机会。为期一年的研究将导致核心课程的新结构，以及一套继续评估和改进课程的工具。智力价值这个项目将在课程设计方面进行两项创新。课程设计的“用例”办法在欧洲经委会课程要素和职业选择之间建立了明确的联系。它补充了将课程分解为学生不能很好理解的传统技术领域的做法，并将指导选择能够服务于最佳多种目的的基本材料。对欧洲经委会课程内容的图解分析为评价课程的替代组织提供了新的衡量标准。更广泛的影响将通过该项目网站向其他大学提供在欧洲经委会课程中确定和交付基本材料的新方法和工具。我们课程用例的开发也将吸引更广泛、更多样化的学生，他们希望在电气和计算机工程领域找到具有较高社会影响力的职业。这些用例还将以吸引人的方式在网站上提供，这将鼓励甚至高中辅导顾问与高中生一起探索以欧洲经委会教育为基础的职业的可能性。

This project is planning to develop new methods for selecting the content and delivering core components in the highly flexible curriculum of the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department at Carnegie Mellon University. With the help of students, faculty, alumni and industry representatives, a number of "use cases" will be created that illustrate how their curriculum can provide the foundation for productive careers in specific fields, with an emphasis on social impact. The project aims to develop a balance between flexibility and fundamentals within the broad discipline of ECE, and create means to help students better understand the role of fundamentals in a wide variety of careers that have significant impact on society. The content of ECE curricula will be analyzed using graphical tools to evaluate alternatives for structuring an effective four-year ECE curriculum that offers a solid foundation in the fundamentals with the flexibility to pursue opportunities identified by our use cases. The one-year study will lead to a new structure for the core courses, and a set of tools for continuing evaluation and improvement of the curriculum. Intellectual Merit This project will develop two innovations for curriculum design. The "use case" approach to curriculum design creates clear connections between elements of an ECE curriculum and profession options. It complements the decomposition of the curriculum into traditional technical areas that are not well understood by students, and will guide the selection of fundamental material that can serve best multiple ends. The graphical analysis of the elements of the ECE curriculum provides novel metrics for evaluating alternative organizations of the curriculum. Broader Impacts The novel methods and tools for identifying and delivering fundamental material in an ECE curriculum will be made available to other universities through the project web site. The development of use cases for our curriculum will also attract a broader, more diverse set of students who seek careers with high social impact into electrical and computer engineering. The use cases will also be available on the web site in an attractive way that encourages even high school guidance counselors to explore with high school students the possibilities for careers based on an ECE education.