The Impact of Providing Unlimited Access to Programmable Boards in Digital Design Education

Radu, Mihaela; Cole, Clint; Dabacan, Mircea; Harris, Joe; Sexton, Shannon

doi:10.1109/te.2009.2037735

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“…Student comments highlight as an advantage the ability to use full-featured and production-oriented CAD tools. Other comments regret the lack of laboratory classes for the exercises, which is attributable to students' expectations for a better connection between theory and practice, and is consistent with observations reported in other studies [24], [25].…”

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An Electromechanical Approach to a Printed Circuit Board Design Course

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This paper describes a printed circuit board (PCB) design course based on electromechanical workflow. The course relies on the premise that a PCB is an integral component of any electronic apparatus, along with its other electromechanical and mechanical components. To emphasize this to students, electrical and mechanical computer-aided design tools are used in synergy. The course content is described in detail, and the design workflow is illustrated, using a project to design a data acquisition instrument as an example.Index Terms-3-D modeling, electrical computer-aided design (ECAD), mechanical computer-aided design (MCAD), printed circuit board (PCB) design.

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An Electromechanical Approach to a Printed Circuit Board Design Course

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“…The use of specific instrumentation motivates students, for example in the use of video-gaming devices as a motivation for learning embedded systems programming [23]. Similarly, unlimited access to specific instrumentation is reported to offer learning benefits [20].…”

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confidence: 99%

A Radionavigation Systems Course

Guerrero

Valenzuela-Valdés

2015

IEEE Trans. Educ.

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This paper presents a new course, Radionavigation Systems, whose laboratory and theoretical components complement each other to enhance student learning. Radionavigation skills and knowledge are taught by means of various instructional methods, and the laboratory successfully merges hands-on learning using specific instrumentation and software simulation tools, with m-learning and a competition. The relationship between cognitive and psychomotor learning outcomes is discussed. These instructional methods proved highly motivating to students. Oral presentations and report preparation skills also improved in students who completed the course. The experiments designed for the course are discussed in the light of student surveys, student grades, and the work carried out by the lecturer. The evaluation results demonstrate a high degree of success in meeting the initial goals of the course. The main drawback of the current course is related to equipment availability. Student motivation was high throughout the course. The course as designed is transferable to other universities.

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“…Due to the importance of the practical sessions, a special effort is being done in order to adopt the active learning methodology [8][9][10]. This way, an educational innovation project related to the Master has been started for reinforcing the coordination and collaboration between the different subjects by means of multi-subject practical work.…”

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Development of a multidisciplinary hands-on training test-bench for an Electronic Engineering master

Jiménez

Lucía

Urriza

et al. 2011

2011 5th IEEE International Conference on E-Learning in Industrial Electronics (ICELIE)

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The adaptation of the Spanish university system to the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) demands a methodological transformation. The classical Spanish system has to move away from teacher-focused methodology towards student-focused learning, in which students adopt an active role in their education, making emphasis on hands-on experiences. In order to meet the EHEA guidelines, an educational innovation project has been started in the Master in Electronic Engineering offered at the University of Zaragoza. The aim of this project is to reinforce the coordination and collaboration between the Master subjects by means of a multidisciplinary practical work based on a real system. The educational innovation project proposes a hands-on test bench based in a domestic induction heating cooker, which can be implemented in modular form. Each course focuses on the design of a specific part of the whole system, taking into account that in a final project, all the modules have to operate together to implement the complete system.

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The Impact of Providing Unlimited Access to Programmable Boards in Digital Design Education

Cited by 21 publications

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An Electromechanical Approach to a Printed Circuit Board Design Course

An Electromechanical Approach to a Printed Circuit Board Design Course

A Radionavigation Systems Course

Development of a multidisciplinary hands-on training test-bench for an Electronic Engineering master

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