PC´s, the bandwidth revolution and engineering curricula

On a world scale, although nonuniformly, influences such as more intense involvement by industry/business in education and training, increased computer facilities, the accelerating rate of production of software and miscellaneous "packaged knowledge", and the impact of rapidly developing ether- and telecommunications facilities are all promoting changes in university activities; since the roles and economic viabilities of universities have also come under scrutiny, a prompt reconsideration of conventional practices is now timely. These include the existing lecturer professor/learning symbiosis, more rapid acceptance of the communication facilities now available, reconsideration of what hitherto has been accepted as "interaction" between teacher and taught student, and consequential reappraisal of curricula content and modes of delivery. Electrical/electronics-based education clearly has special responsibilities in these regards: firstly, the bandwidth and data rate revolutions, both historically and currently, underlie the advances in equipment and systems provision now available, and secondly the subject matter of electrical engineering and electronics offers creative opportunities for curricula innovation.