Crazy car race contest: Multicourse design curricula in embedded system design

IEEE Transactions on Education

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 61-67

  Hussmann, Stephan ^a   Jensen, Detlef ^a  

^a Fachhochschule Westkuste   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contest based learning; Curricula development; Design education; Electrical engineering; Embedded systems; Problem based learning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CURRICULA; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; TEACHING;

CONTEST-BASED LEARNING; DESIGN EDUCATION; ENGINEERING DESIGN; MULTICOURSE DESIGN PROJECT; PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33947421630     PISSN: 00189359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TE.2006.888906     Document Type: Article

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