. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Creating Learning Communities for Student Success in Gateway Discrete Linear SystemsAbstractWright State University is a multi-campus, public research university headquartered in Dayton,Ohio, which has one of the largest concentrations of electrical engineers and computer scientistsin the United States [1]. By the early twentieth century this region was well-known as a centerfor innovation and entrepreneurship, becoming the top site in the country in patents per capita in1903 when the university’s namesakes Orville and Wilbur Wright flew. Wright State Universitywas created in 1967 to meet the region’s needs for research, innovation and education and issituated
, now commands on the order of two or three class periods in introductorycircuits courses. In today’s circumstances, it would more often than not be a disservice to ourundergraduate students to demand they write machine code to access registers, learn to designwith tube amplifiers, wind all their own inductors, or reinvent the wheel for common operationsin scikit-learn, pandas, or OpenCV. All these skills are still relevant for certain professional rolesor applications, but the modern undergraduate curriculum prioritizes learning how to learn andbecoming a resourceful problem-solver over accumulating the maximal set of discrete technicalskills. If the latter were the case, becoming an electronics engineer would entail little more thanmemorizing
hones students’ skills in soliciting community stakeholderfeedback in order to generate innovative solutions. In PFE I, students are introduced toengineering and ethical best practices, as well as various career opportunities. In PFE II, studentsare further introduced to careers in technology development, research, and academia. Studentstour engineering labs, experience faculty guest lectures, and consider how to solicit and integratecommunity stakeholder perspectives as they generate solutions to engineering-related problems.Finally, in PFE III, students learn how to use ethical engineering principles to create designs thatmeet societal needs. In each PFE I–III course, about 50 out-of-class hours are allocated forworking on students’ capstone
included. Even within existing courses, notnecessarily those with a EA or HE focus, participants struggled with finding time to include EAcontent.Table 11: Responses to the prompt “What are the barriers preventing you from teaching en-ergy/electricity access or teaching it more” grouped by thematic area Theme Responses Examples Curriculum 13 time in class, space in curriculum Funding/Resources 8 university investment in EA Student interest 6 need to demonstrate sustained enrollment Experience/Training 6 EA not within area of expertise Department negative perception of