Presentation
Vertical integration of System-on-Chip and Green Engineering across the undergraduate curriculum
Frontiers in Education Conference
(2010)
Abstract
Vertical integration is significant in achieving better student comprehension of the connections among topics and concepts covered in various courses taught during the same or different semesters of the curriculum. Students realize that the courses are part of a flow that contributes to a knowledge base without artificial boundaries rather than being separate bodies of knowledge. In this paper, vertical integration is achieved by a series of laboratory exercises in two areas (System-on-Chip and Green Engineering) that start as well-structured experiments at the lower levels and proceed as increasingly complex open-ended design projects at upper levels of the curriculum. Quantitative assessment results clearly show that students understand that concepts carry over from one course to another as a result of the laboratory projects. Clinic assessment results are also very encouraging.
Disciplines
Publication Date
October 1, 2010
Location
Washington, DC, USA
DOI
10.1109/FIE.2010.5673500
Citation Information
Ravi P. Ramachandran, Peter M. Jansson, Ying Tang, Linda M. Head, et al.. "Vertical integration of System-on-Chip and Green Engineering across the undergraduate curriculum" Frontiers in Education Conference (2010) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/ying-tang/30/