A dramatic shift in chemical engineering undergraduate education is proposed, based on discipline-wide workshop discussions that have taken place over the past year, to be developed and implemented over a ten-year period. Through this process broad concensus has been developed regarding basic principles for chemical engineering undergraduate eduction in the future; these principles address fund...

The norm in teaching requirements engineering to undergraduates is to follow a prescribed set of topics, e.g., that proposed by IEEE/ACM task force on software engineering or that described in a suitable course text. There is no doubt that this teaches students about the established concepts in the field. In this position paper, we argue that there can be much added value to this baseline by in...

This paper presents the subject Digital Techniques for Communications (DTC). DTC is taught at the Escola Politècnica Superior de Castelldefels (EPSC), which belongs to the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). It is a compulsory subject for undergraduate electrical engineering students specialized in telecommunication systems. It covers sampling theory, efficient IQ modulation and demodula...

The “engineering” focus in software engineering education leaves instructors vulnerable to several traps. It also misleads students as to SE’s essential human and social dimensions. In this paper we argue that there’s more to SE than engineering. A major challenge is to reconcile the engineering dimension with the human and social dimension.

The purpose of this study was to understand the views and perceptions of engineering undergraduate students on engineering education. The method of content analysis was used to analyze the language used by engineering undergraduate students, and to extract the underlying common factors or perceived characteristics of “Excellence in Engineering Education.” These common factors were then used to ...

 We have developed a unique set of software activities and tutorials to augment teaching and learning in standard required undergraduate engineering courses. With our products students are able to change parameters, predict answers and compare, interact with animations, and feel the results. Two sample software interaction screens are given in the figures below. This is possible via economical...

1 Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Trindade CP 476. 88040-970 Florianópolis SC – Brasil. [email protected] Abstract Maybe due to the success of their use in industrial companies, quality programs have been often applied in Engineering courses. These programs aim at applying basic concepts of Total Quality Management to the structure of teaching activities and to the way they are fu...

Attention is focused on continuous-space shift-invariant systems with continuous system maps and inputs and outputs that are elements of L∞(IR ). It is shown that infinite superposition can fail in this important setting. It is also shown that continuous shift-invariant linear mappings need not commute with the operation of integration (even when the two composite operations are well defined). ...