USC Reference and Working Documents

Summary Documents

Curriculum Navigation Draft

Curriculum Prerequisite Map (.ppt version)

Final Curriculum Revision Documents

Latest revision of proposed curriculum plans: Presentation

Electronics 1 Course Outline, updated

Biomedical Circuits and Signals Course Outline (new broad sophomore course)

Working Documents:

Minutes

IEEE Student Feedback Notes, 11/14

11/13/13 Freshman Year Proposal from Tom Sheahan

Teaching Models: Presentation

IEEE Student Feedback Notes, 11/13/13

Midterm Feedback from Students on Circuits and Signals: Biomedical Applications
Trace Comments from Students

ECE Power Systems Documents: Plan     Comparison with COE

PAL Introduction

CE Core, Excel

CE Core Document

2010-2011 Draft Presentation on new curriculum

New course development plans and course overview
EE Draft Curriculum, Excel Spreadsheet
EE Draft Curriculum, 1 course freshman year, Excel Spreadsheet
Gunar's notes on early outcome-based discussion of curriculum
Sophmore Year Retention Notes (compiled by Kaushik and Nick)
Freshman/Sophmore Course Content
Program Objectives
EECE 2408 Charter

Reference Material:

Summary and excerpts from some of the engineering education literature below

PNAS Meta-Analysis of Active Learning vs Lecture, 2014

New York Times Coursera discussion, September 2013
Georgia Tech On-Line MS in computer science, NY Times, August, 2013.
Laptop U., New Yorker, May, 2013 "When people refer to “higher education” in this country, they are talking about two systems. One is élite. It’s made up of selective schools that people can apply to—schools like Harvard, and also like U.C. Santa Cruz, Northeastern, Penn State, and Kenyon. All these institutions turn most applicants away, and all pursue a common, if vague, notion of what universities are meant to strive for."
Article in Science on university teaching transformation, April 2013
Paper in Science on active learning in teaching physics, 2011
New York Times article on using on-line courses, April 2013
Science Editorial on MOOCs and Research-Based Practices (2013)
Presidents Council of Advisors on Science and Techlology (PCAST): Engage to Excel (2012)
National Research Council, Discipline-Based Education Research (Science and Engineering (2012)
Practicing Versus Inventing, research paper
Student Feedback Session, 4/3/13
MOOCs, New York Times, "Colleges Assess Cost ot Free Online Courses," 3/19/13
MOOCs Op-Ed, New York Times, 3/6/13
Verbal Feedback from Pilot Section of Biomedical Circuits and Signals, 2012
Freshman Year Draft Report, 11/2/12
Student Feedback, 11/28/2012

ABET 2012-2013

Economist Article, Dec. 2012
NAE Document on Real World Experience in Engineering
HiJack mobile phone headphone data/power interface
More HiJack
Analog Devices Teaching Hardware Platforms: http://www.analog.com/en/university/topic.html?src=videos



Mobile Studio Learning Platform: http://www.ecedha.org/docs/source/read-more.pdf?sfvrsn=0
On-Line Course Offerings, NY Times Op-Ed, May 2012
CMU Curriculum Redesign Paper, Director, Proc. of the IEEE, 1995
Re-Engineering Engineering Education to Retain Students, Cronicle of Higher Education, March 2012
What you really need to know
, Summers, NY Times
Association of American Universities Five-Year Initiative for Improving Undergraduate STEM Education Discussion Draft Updated October 14, 2011
Science News&Analysis, 2011, Weed-Out Courses Hamper Diversity
New York Times Article, Nov. 2011, Retention

Undergraduate Feedback Session Notes, Nov. 2010 Nick Ellen

ECE Curricula from COE Web Site

NEU Academic Plan

ECE IAB notes, fall 2010

Engineering for a Changing World, James J. Duderstadt
Future of Engineering Education 2002, Several Authors

ABET Web Site
ABET Criteria 2011
Al Soyster Talk, Nov. 17, 2010

Science Article about on-line education, Mayadas, 2009
Science Article on MIT's Open Courseware

NAE Report: Educating the Engineer of 2020
NAE Report: The Engineer of 2020, Visions of Enginering in the New Century
NAE Report: How Students Learn

Computer Engineering 2004 Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs in Computer Engineering. The Joint Task Force on Computing Curricula IEEE Computer Society Association for Computing Machinery December 12, 2004

MIT New Curriculum Overview
MIT freshman/sophmore course #1
MIT freshman/sophmore course #2
MIT Applied Electromagnetics (one of the foundation courses, sophmore/junior)

Georgia Tech. College of Computing with Curriculum Threads

Carnegie Mellon ECE Curriculum: Look at freshman year, core, breadth and depth requirements.