Incorporating commercial electronic design automation into electrical and computer engineering curriculum

Abstract

American engineering colleges and universities are serving two types of clients; directly, our students and indirectly, o u r industry. Traditional formal instructional education has fulfilled the needs of our students, but only partially addressed the needs of our industries. Incorporating commercially available integrated Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software into the engineering curriculum will provide our graduating students not only the necessary formal training but also the hands-on commercial EDA experience to effectively contribute to our workforce.