Innovation-oriented education methodology in teaching and learning a telecommunication course

Author

Wang, Zongbo ; Zhao, Taiyang ; Xing, Huiling ; Sun, Yi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Dalian Univ. of Technol., Dalian, China

fYear

2012

fDate

20-23 Aug. 2012

Abstract

An innovation-oriented teaching and learning methodology is presented in this paper for undergraduate education of telecommunications. To inspire the innovative mindset of the students and keep them actively participated in the course, several innovation-oriented approaches and programs have been developed to associate with the lecture part. The proposed methodology has been used in 2012-13 Spring semester for the course titled Principles of Telecommunications. Positive effect has been demonstrated by students´ active participation through the course, and through their innovative ways of thinking showing from the assignments and the lab design.

Keywords

educational courses; teaching; telecommunication engineering education; innovation-oriented education methodology; innovation-oriented learning methodology; innovation-oriented teaching methodology; positive effect; telecommunication course; telecommunication undergraduate education; Conferences; Education; Field programmable gate arrays; Software packages; Telecommunications; educational activities; educational programs; telecommunications education;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE), 2012 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2417-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-2416-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TALE.2012.6360401

Filename

6360401