Teaching wireless communication using modern tools for OBE accomplishment

Migration of courses constituting higher engineering education to into an OBE (Outcome Based Education) environment is a challenging activity and varied perspectives. Such migration involves graceful modulation to the curriculum, delivery mechanisms and the assessment criteria. These modulations are driven by modulated Course Outcomes which, invariably, lands up, asynchronously, with, apparently, different motivations. A process frame work is believed to alleviate the difficulties in achieving successful migration and hence is formalized in this paper and presented. A case study of migration process which has been implemented by the authors for an UG (Under Graduate) programme course titled “Wireless Communication” is presented. The potential of simulation tool in accomplishing successful OBE is, incidentally, discovered and owing to their importance, otherwise, the importance of the development of skill set in the use of simulation tools with a clear understanding of the domain as an effective mechanism to achieve OBE is emphasized.