Title :
Female friendly DSP curriculum for expanding women´s opportunities
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb, IL, USA
Abstract :
The paper presents a female -friendly engineering education in digital signal processing (DSP) at Northern Illinois University (NIU), more generally, revising the negative value traditionally placed upon electrical engineering achievement for women. Important tasks are as follows: (1) Design the DSP curricula in female-friendly way. (2) Establish an interactive DSP learners´ community by developing appropriate teaching strategies in the class. (3) Offer teaching supplements for the enrolled students.
Keywords :
electrical engineering education; gender issues; signal processing; teaching; Northern Illinois University; digital signal processing; electrical engineering; female friendly DSP curriculum; female-friendly engineering education; teaching strategies; teaching supplements; women opportunities; Communities; Digital signal processing; Educational institutions; Electrical engineering; Materials; Mathematics; Digital signal processing (DSP); connected knowing; female-friendly; separate knowing; support group;
Conference_Titel :
Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2012 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kyoto
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0045-2
Electronic_ISBN :
1520-6149
DOI :
10.1109/ICASSP.2012.6288488
