Elaborating Electrical Engineering Curricula

One of the aims of education in developing countries is that it should be comparable and compatible with that offered in industrialized societies, so that graduates produced in these countries may be as competent and as productive as their counterparts elsewhere. In Engineering Education, students from developing countries are disadvantaged, in that the facilities available are often poor and costly to improve. Furthermore, students, although highly motivated, do not receive the sort of technological exposure that is constantly available in industrialized countries. High drop-out rates in the first year of engineering study, due to the sudden relaxation of the rigid rules of behavior that had prevailed during the pre-university schooling days, and the lack of understanding of many abstract engineering concepts, make it necessary for lecturers to provide the engineering freshman with a picture of engineering which is both interesting and fruitful. In this paper, the design of Electrical Engineering curricula is examined and means of making Electrical Engineering interesting to engineering freshmen are discussed. A simulation exercise large industrial concern and “non-traditional” laboratory experiments are described.