A Novel Course To Provide Electrical Engineering Experience To Freshmen Students

An experiential learning course centered around an intellectually inquisitive project has been designed to introduce freshmen students to the field of elect rical engineering, and also to provide the students with a head start for the beginning engineering courses they will take later in the curriculum. The course has a heavy emphasis on laboratory activities with an equally strong focus on ‘just-in-time’ theory relating to the concepts central to accomplishing the project goal. The prerequisites for the course have been kept at a minimum to make the course accessible to any university student who wants to explore engineering as a career.