Full Self-Study Report (PDF, 1.7 mb)

Full Self-Study Report (PDF, 1.7 mb)

Faculty Résumés

Courses, with ABET Syllabi

ECE 111- Introduction to ECE: Tools
ECE 112- Introduction to ECE: Concepts
ECE 271- Digital Logic Design
ECE 272- Digital Logic Design Laboratory
ECE 317- Electronic Materials and Devices
ECE 322- Electronics I
ECE 323- Electronics II
ECE 331- Electromechanical Energy Conversion
ECE 351- Signals & Systems I
ECE 352- Signals & Systems II
ECE 375- Computer Organization and Assembly Language Programming
ECE 390- Electric and Magnetic Fields
ECE 391- Transmission Lines and Electromagnetic Waves
ECE 417- Basic Semiconductor Devices
ECE 418- Semiconductor Processing
ECE 422- CMOS Integrated Circuits I
ECE 423- CMOS Integrated Circuits II
ECE 428- Data Converters
ECE 431- Power Electronics
ECE 432- Dynamics of Electromechanical Energy Conversion
ECE 433- Power Systems Analysis
ECE 441- Engineering Design Project
ECE 442- Engineering Design Project
ECE 443- Engineering Design Project
ECE 451- Control Engineering Design I/ME 430- System Dynamics and Control
ECE 452- Control Engineering Design II
ECE 461- Communications I
ECE 462- Communications II
ECE 463- Communications III
ECE 464- Digital Signal Processing
ECE 465- Computer Networks and Protocols
ECE 471- Advanced Digital Design
ECE 472- Computer Architecture
ECE 473- Microprocessor System Design
ECE 474- VLSI System Design
ECE 478- Computer and Network Security
ECE 482- Optical Electronic Systems
ECE/PH 483- Guided Wave Optics
ECE 484-Antennas and Propogation
ECE 485- Microwave Design Techniques
ECE 499- Multimedia Systems
ENGR 201- Electrical Fundamentals I
ENGR 202- Electrical Fundamentals II
ENGR 203- Electrical Fundamentals III

Curriculum Development Based on a Platform for Learning™

The School of EECS at Oregon State University recently began an effort to enhance our undergraduate curriculum by introducing a platform for learning. Ultimately it will be used throughout the four year curriculum to help connect the material among courses and create a fun and exciting hands-on experience. The platform for learning we are using is a robot we refer to as TekBots. We are using this platform to not only integrate topics throughout the curriculum but also to enhance our program educational objectives of breadth, depth, professionalism, innovation, community and troubleshooting. TekBots has been introduced into the ECE 112 and ECE 271/2 courses up to this point. This year, we will be introducing it into ENGR 202 and ECE 375. In the process of introducing this concept into our courses, we have had to re-evaluate nearly everything we are doing and how and when topics are covered. Some courses will simply be enhanced by adding this lab component to the class while we anticipate that others will be completely changed in the future.

The material that follows documents some of our efforts up to this point and includes the following:

• Presentation describing the TekBots program (PowerPoint, 6 mb)
• Frontiers in Education Paper to be presented in November 2002
• Recent M.S. Thesis by Don Heer describing many of the new laboratories associated with TekBots
• Assessment of enhancement of innovation and community through introduction of TekBots
• Planning grant funded by NSF entitled "Reforming Undergraduate Engineering Education using an Integrated Platform for Learning™
• Summary of Focus Group meeting with community colleges within Oregon
• TekBots business plan
• Proposal submitted to NSF to fund creating new assessment methods in ECE entitled "Tekbots™ Assessment Project at OSU"