Collection

CoED

Authors

Bahaa Ansaf; Neb Jaksic

engineering, and industrial engineering programs. According to stu- dents’ feedback for this course, as well as similar courses offered at different engineering programs, the course is time-intensive, involves no critical thinking, requires limited class participation, and is not well connected with real-world manufacturing problems. The suggested teaching approach is developed to include several computer-based learning com- ponents that can help in creating an active/passive/constructive learning environment for the students. A simulation-based project is used to

Collection

CoED

Authors

Bryan A Jones; J W Bruce; Mahnas Jean Mohammadi-Aragh

. Thecourse concluded with a small design project. The first half of the course focused on instruction inVHDL syntax and was accompanied by laboratory sessions in which students wrote descriptions —mostly structural — of simple hardware designs in VHDL. Students composed appropriate testbenches to exercise and validate their designs. The second half of the course focused on timingand system design issues along with a more behavioral approach to hardware description. Weeklylab assignments required the students to design ever-larger components that could be reused intheir final design project. The course offering described herein was similar to previous semesterswith nearly identical topical coverage and pacing using the same text, lecture materials