Stirring up a Special Sauce, A Second Course: Marrying Electrical and Computer Engineering with Threshold Concepts for ECE 101

Abstract

This workshop introduces threshold concepts as a framework to design an integrated first-year course that covers a wide range of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) from circuits to software. We discuss an interaction plan to engage participants in distilling fundamental projects for ECE courses into their fundamental components and looking for opportunities to make explicit connections across disciplines. While ECE is used as the guiding example, other disciplines can benefit from a similar approach.11This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1623067.