TEACHING ELECTRONICS-ICT: FROM FOCUS AND STRUCTURE TO PRACTICAL REALIZATIONS

TEACHING ELECTRONICS-ICT: FROM FOCUS AND STRUCTURE TO PRACTICAL REALIZATIONS

J. Verhaevert, P. Van Torre (2019).  TEACHING ELECTRONICS-ICT: FROM FOCUS AND STRUCTURE TO PRACTICAL REALIZATIONS. 13.

We present a four-year electronics-ICT educational master program at Ghent University in Belgium. The students develop knowledge and skills from novice to experienced electronic circuit designers. In the corresponding topics, the immersion into engineering problems is deepened. The horizontal and vertical alignment of courses in the four-year master program at our university is discussed. The curriculum of the four-year master program is highly projectoriented and all topics are clustered around a well-considered set of standards. This clustering supports the logical structure of the program, with students gradually acquiring the necessary competences. All standards and their mutual interaction are extensively discussed in the paper. We also focus on four design-implement projects included in the electronics-ICT program, explicitly following CDIO-guidelines. Whereas the first-year project has a limited level of difficulty, the challenges increase significantly in the course of the next years. Students learn that product design is an iterative process on different levels, where the design strategy can be changed continuously based on important and crucial feedback. Different evaluations have demonstrated that our students are not only aware of CDIO-principles, but are also convinced of the quality of the results obtained by following the standards. 

Authors (New): 
Jo Verhaevert
Patrick Van Torre
Pages: 
13
Affiliations: 
Ghent University, Belgium
Keywords: 
Design-Implement Experiences
Engineering Workspaces
integrated learning experiences
Active learning
Learning Assessment
Program evaluation
CDIO Standard 5
CDIO Standard 6
CDIO Standard 7
CDIO Standard 8
CDIO Standard 11
CDIO Standard 12
Year: 
2019
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