Teaching Design-Oriented Analysis at the First Level

Abstract

A common experience among new graduate electrical engineers is that, when faced with a real design problem, they "fall off a cliff" because they find that Design is the Reverse of Analysis, and that real problems are at least an order of magnitude more complicated than those they are familiar with. A second-level active circuits course has been highly successful in implementing a Design-Oriented Analysis approach in which detailed and specific techniques have beem made available to working engineers. This Workshop will address two questions: 1. Can or should these Methods of Design-Oriented Analysis be incorporated in a first-level active circuits course; 2. If so, how can this best be done, and with what balance with conventional methods?

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