Incorporating analog integrated circuits in the undergraduate curriculum

The authors describe an approach taken to incorporate analog ICs into the senior undergraduate electronics design course at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. This course is the final requirement in the three-course EE electronics design sequence. The Academy´s broad core curriculum requires efficient use of each electrical engineering courses taken by EE majors. To achieve this efficiency, lab exercises and design projects are carefully combined with the instruction in each course. This provides the student with reinforcement of the material on several different levels. Additionally, theory and practice are united since the course and lab are taught by the same instructor