<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Javier Macias-Guarasa</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Juan Manuel Montero</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">San Segundo, Ruben</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Alvaro Araujo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Octavio Nieto-Taladriz</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">A Project-Based Learning Approach to Design Electronic Systems Curricula</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">IEEE Transactions on Education</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Curriculum design</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Electronic Systems Curricula</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">project-based learning</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">software and hardware tools for education</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2006</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">08/2006</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/13/34929/01668283.pdf%3Fisnumber%3D34929%26prod%3DJNL%26arnumber%3D1668283%26arSt%3D%2B389%26ared%3D%2B397%26arAuthor%3DMacias-Guarasa%252C%2BJ.%253B%2BMontero%252C%2BJ.M.%253</style></url></web-urls><related-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://geintra-uah.org/en/system/files/01668283.pdf</style></url></related-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">IEEE</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Estados Unidos</style></pub-location><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">49</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">389-397</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">English</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;This paper presents an approach to design Electronic&lt;br /&gt;
Systems Curricula for making electronics more appealing to&lt;br /&gt;
students. Since electronics is an important grounding for other&lt;br /&gt;
disciplines (computer science, signal processing, and communications),&lt;br /&gt;
this approach proposes the development of multidisciplinary&lt;br /&gt;
projects using the project-based learning (PBL) strategy&lt;br /&gt;
for increasing the attractiveness of the curriculum. The proposed&lt;br /&gt;
curriculum structure consists of eight courses: four theoretical&lt;br /&gt;
courses and four PBL courses (including a compulsory Master&amp;rsquo;s&lt;br /&gt;
thesis). In PBL courses, the students, working together in groups,&lt;br /&gt;
develop multidisciplinary systems, which become progressively&lt;br /&gt;
more complex. To address this complexity, the Department of&lt;br /&gt;
Electronic Engineering has invested in the last five years in many&lt;br /&gt;
resources for developing software tools and a common hardware.&lt;br /&gt;
This curriculum has been evaluated successfully for the last four&lt;br /&gt;
academic years: the students have increased their interest in electronics&lt;br /&gt;
and have given the courses an average grade of more than&lt;br /&gt;
71% for all PBL course evaluations (data extracted from students&lt;br /&gt;
surveys). The students have also acquired new skills and obtained&lt;br /&gt;
very good academic results: the average grade was more than 74%&lt;br /&gt;
for all PBL courses. An important result is that all students have&lt;br /&gt;
developed more complex and sophisticated electronic systems,&lt;br /&gt;
while considering that the results are worth the effort invested.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3</style></issue><accession-num><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">0.362</style></accession-num><call-num><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">EDUCATION, SCI. DISCIPLI</style></call-num></record></records></xml>