Analysis of teaching methodologies for electronics in non-specialized engineering studies

Abstract

Since the academic year 2011-2012, the Electronics courses have started to be taught within the curriculum of the new Degree in Mechanical Engineering and the new Degree in Electrical Engineering, which are part of the undergraduate academic offer of the University of Cantabria (Spain). Both courses follow a common teaching and learning methodology regarding, not only the syllabus contents and organization, but also the assessment of competencies. During four academic years, changes in the course syllabus have been done, as well as different assessment procedures have been developed and analysed. In this way, the teachers of these two courses have been able to evaluate the extent to which students have acquired the expected competencies and also to draw conclusions about the most suited learning methodology to both student profiles, with the specific objective of decreasing the dropout rate.