Computer engineering using innovative instructional technologies at the University of Southern California

  • Authors:
  • Timothy Mark Pinkston;Peter A. Beerel

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA;University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

  • Venue:
  • WCAE '98 Proceedings of the 1998 workshop on Computer architecture education
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

Our ultimate goal as university educators is to guide students through perhaps the most important stage of a life-long learning experience. The principal challenges associated with achieving this goal for computer engineering students are to • teach them the engineering fundamentals and specializations they need to successfully develop and integrate various software and hardware components into a complex product, • provide them with the underlying engineering ethics and economics as well as liberal arts exposure that will guide them to develop products beneficial to our society, • empower them with the oral and written communication skills needed to thrive in typical team-based engineering environments, and • impart to them a learning experience that is rewarding rather than frustrating by better teaching back-breaker concepts and by more finely interlacing lectures with hands-on lab experience.