The use of a general education course to introduce nonengineering students and faculty to concepts of engineering

Proceedings Frontiers in Education Twenty-First Annual Conference. Engineering Education in a New World Order Pub Date : 1991-09-21 DOI:10.1109/FIE.1991.187580

J. Bobis, D. Newell

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In particular, the Electrical Engineering Department at Northern Illinois University (NIU), where a substantial majority of the students are undergraduates, elected to promote their programs and to teach the nonengineering students the various facets of electrical engineering with a general education course. Some of the technical topics included were discussions of computers, remote communication, VCRs, microwave ovens, automatic control systems, household wiring distribution, as well as current items of interest such as the Hubble telescope imperfections. In addition, each student selected or was given a problem to conceptually use his/her new found tools to solve. Vehicle location using local radio stations as beacons, parking lot license plate readers, computers to determine parking bills, and home basement gas detectors were typical problems the students elected to conceptually solve. This course, with typical enrollments of over 100 students, has alerted the administration and many of the 25000 students/1200 faculty at NIU to the new Electrical Engineering program on campus. This has resulted in the program being more dynamically supported by the university community.<>

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利用通识教育课程向非工程专业的学生和教师介绍工程的概念

特别是，北伊利诺伊大学(NIU)的电气工程系，绝大多数学生都是本科生，选择推广他们的项目，并通过通识教育课程向非工程专业的学生教授电气工程的各个方面。会议讨论了计算机、远程通信、录像机、微波炉、自动控制系统、家庭配线，以及当前人们感兴趣的项目，如哈勃望远镜的缺陷。此外，每个学生选择或被赋予一个问题，概念性地使用他/她的新发现的工具来解决。车辆定位使用当地无线电台作为信标，停车场车牌读取器，计算机确定停车账单，以及家庭地下室气体探测器是学生们选择概念性解决的典型问题。这门课程的招生人数通常超过100人，它提醒了校方和该校25000名学生/1200名教师中的许多人注意校园里新的电气工程专业。这使得该项目得到了大学社区更积极的支持。

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