An Approach of Skill-Based Education for Industry-Ready Electrical Engineers: Power Electronics Course as A Case Study

Recently, and particularly after the Covid19 pandemic period and during teaching different courses, it has been noticed that most of the undergraduate engineering students have rising the type of questions such as ''Why we are learning this particular course?'' and ''What are the main benefits and direct impacts of such course on our future carrier? Also as a direct impact of the new available job requirements, it becomes most importance to prepare future engineers to thrive in recent dynamic changing in employment landscape. Hence for students who want to compete and involved in promising working opportunities, it is important to bridging the gap between teaching courses and the industry requirements by focusing on the concept of ''Industry Ready Engineers Since most of recent jobs concentrate on specific required competencies, the author believes that it is important now to give more focusing on the skill-based learning methodology. This paper introduces an approach focusing on group categorization for the recent specific required skills of electrical engineers;then how to involve these skills in specific teaching courses. The main objectives of such approach is to intentionally improve such group skills (one by one) throughout the all program courses in order to introduce a final graduated engineer with great working readiness skills. The approach is validated and evaluated on teaching the power electronics course 1 as a case study. © 2023 IEEE.

Actions for Academic Performance Improvement of University Newcomer Students in an Electronics Introductory Subject

The subject Electronics for Telecommunications (ET) is taught in the first semester of the Telecommunications degrees at the Castelldefels School of Telecommunications and Aerospace Engineering (EETAC). The academic performance is relatively low compared to the same course taught in a double degree of Aerospace and Telecommunications, in part justified by the large difference in the university access marks of the students between both degrees. Several actions have been implemented in courses 2019/20 and 2020/21 to address this issue, especially in theory classes where student attendance is lower than in laboratory sessions. Implementation difficulties have arisen because the presence of the COVID pandemic. Even so, performance has greatly increased, especially at the first semester of each academic year. In addition, a student survey shows a good satisfaction with the introduced actions and others in process of introduction or assessment. Some of the actions, particularly those to be applied in the theory sessions, could be easily extrapolated to other first-semester courses of the degrees. © 2022 SEFI 2022 - 50th Annual Conference of the European Society for Engineering Education, Proceedings. All rights reserved.

Using Mixed Exam Methods to Enhance Students Learning for Electronics Courses

This paper presents several non-traditional exam methods that serve both introductory analog electronics and advanced electronics courses in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) department at the University of Evansville (UE). The study is focused on classes from Fall 2019 - Fall 2020. Despite the COVID disruption in 2020, students' outcomes and final course survey indicated that these methods enhanced their understanding, promoted their interest and motivation in transistor topics. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022.

Remote Laboratory Platform for Microcontroller Practices

We present a low-cost Remote Laboratory platform developed to support the practices of the Vehicle Electronics course during the COVID-19 pandemic. The platform, which emerged as an emergency solution, has become a significant teaching resource. Although the platform was designed primarily for microcontroller (or FPGA) based practices, it could be extended to Analogue Electronics practices. From a hardware perspective, low-cost devices such as a Raspberry Pi, a camera or a old PC box have been used, while the software interface has been developed using Node-RED. © 2022 IEEE.

Application to Send Certificates of Participation in The Workshops of Al-Maarif University College

During recent times and after the spread of the new Coronavirus (Covid-19), all researchers and teachers have been interested in participating in conferences, seminars, workshops, and electronic courses to increase scientific expertise in their fields of specialization. These workshops and seminars required the issuance of certificates of participation for them to support their joining, and the establishment of a special system to facilitate the issuance of certificates and their delivery to the participants as soon as possible. During the launch of an electronic questionnaire about the quality of the certificate sending system, participating in the electronic workshops held at the Faculty of Al-Maarif University College (AUC), (1142) of both sexes (males and females) answered the questionnaire. Data were collected from the date of 6/6/2020 until 4/7/2020. By asking participants about how they would like to receive certificates via e-mail or other means such as (Google drive or Media Fire), it was found that 99% of the participants want to receive certificates via e-mail and 1 % do not wish to receive certificates via e-mail. © 2022 IEEE.

Creating E-Modules Basic Electricity And Electronic Courses Based On Wordpress For Vocational School Students

The Covid-19 pandemic that hit all countries in the world, including Indonesia, made the government implement various policies, one of which was in the field of education, namely the implementation of a distance learning system to prevent the spread of Covid-19. This learning system requires the development of learning media that can be accessed remotely. The basic e-module of electricity and electronics is a distance learning medium designed to allow students to learn the material independently even though the teacher has not explained it. E-Modules can be an alternative learning media as a substitute for conventional books during the Covid-19 pandemic. This E-Module is based on WordPress. So that this E-Module can be accessed on multiple devices, starting from the Android, iOS, tablet, and laptop versions of smartphones. The features displayed on the E-module consist of learning materials, student assignments, student attendance, quizzes, learning videos, and technical info. In addition, the features and content displayed can be tailored to the needs of students. Problems faced by vocational students during the Covid-19 pandemic can be solved by applying distance learning media because using distance learning media can reduce virus transmission and can be accessed anytime and anywhere without having to rely on school hours. © 2021 IEEE.

Electronics Education during the COVID-19 pandemic: The use of a CAD framework in distance learning assignments

Computer-aided design (CAD) software is a fundamental engineering tool that is often integrated into educational programs, including those for electronics. When the COVID-19 pandemic spread worldwide in 2020, an introductory electronics course at our Institution had to be reformulated due to restrictions on holding face-to-face classes. In this scenario, traditional lab tasks were replaced by computer-based assignments that students worked on using CAD software. This paper introduces the software framework used for this purpose, which has the two features considered necessary to closely replicate a practical experiment: i) the ability to mimic breadboard circuit prototyping activities and ii) the ability to simulate the prototyped circuits. In order to enhance students' motivation for the educational activities, the assignments proposed in our course have focused on robotics applications for several years. This was conveniently accounted for by combining simulation of electronic circuits with robotics simulation. In this way, we can be reproduce the embodiment of electronic circuits and the interaction with an external environment that takes place in a real experiment. The paper describes the proposed software framework, gives examples of its use, and reports on students’ results for the first distance learning semester using the framework. © 2021 IEEE.