The integration of personal computers into the electrical engineering curriculum at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Author

Schulz, Noel N. ; Nunnally, Charles E.

Author_Institution

Bradley Dept. of Electr. Eng., Virginia Polytech. Inst. & State Univ., Blacksburg, VA, USA

fYear

1991

fDate

7-10 Apr 1991

Firstpage

953

Abstract

Since 1984, each freshman at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) College of Engineering is required to purchase a personal computer. The authors detail how personal computers have been integrated throughout the entire electrical engineering (EE) undergraduate curriculum at Virginia Tech. Besides detailing the computer packages used, they address the concerns, problems, and benefits which relate to computer integration in the EE program. Such issues include justification of PC utilization versus mainframe/workstation use, familiarization of faculty with available computer packages, and the progression of hardware and software through the seven-year program for students, faculty, and laboratories

Keywords

computer science education; educational computing; electrical engineering computing; microcomputer applications; Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; computer packages; electrical engineering curriculum; hardware; personal computer; personal computers; software; Computer displays; Coprocessors; Costs; Disk drives; Educational institutions; Equations; Hardware; Microcomputers; Packaging; Software packages;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Southeastcon '91., IEEE Proceedings of

Conference_Location

Williamsburg, VA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0033-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SECON.1991.147901

Filename

147901