KIRCHHOFF: an educational software for learning the basic principles and methodology in electrical circuits modeling

Author

De Coulon, Frédéric ; Forte, Eddy ; Rivera, Jose Maria

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Swiss Federal Inst. of Technol., Lausanne, Switzerland

Volume

36

Issue

1

fYear

1993

fDate

2/1/1993 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

19

Lastpage

22

Abstract

An interactive courseware package designed to be used as an auxiliary instructional tool by lower division students is described. The pedagogical goal of KIRCHHOFF is to foster mastery of basic methodological skills in the study of lumped electrical circuits. For a given circuit layout, proposed by the teacher, this is verified when the circuit has been systematically labeled and when a correct, complete and nonredundant set of algebraic and integro-differential equations has been written down by the student. KIRCHHOFF, a symbolic exercising tool, provides graphic guidance in such a process and, when needed, gives the learner suitable corrective explanations

Keywords

circuit analysis computing; computer aided instruction; digital simulation; education; engineering graphics; integro-differential equations; lumped parameter networks; software packages; teaching; CAI; KIRCHHOFF; algebraic equations; circuit analysis computing; circuit layout; digital simulation; electrical circuits modeling; engineering graphics; integro-differential equations; lumped electrical circuits; software packages; students; symbolic exercising tool; Circuits; Computer aided instruction; Courseware; Electrical engineering; Graphics; Integrodifferential equations; Libraries; Packaging; User interfaces; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Education, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9359

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/13.204810

Filename

204810