(2008) Turning Students On to Circuits
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QUOTE | Today’s students
Today’s students differ from those of older generations in several respects [2]:
1. They have not tinkered. Thus, if they get started in EE through the conventional circuit analysis class, they have no idea where, in practice, all the theory fits and why it is needed. In the past, many students had tinkered and could see why the theory they were being taught was useful. This provided motivation, which is missing today.
2. They are impatient. Today’s students are used to immediate gratification (exemplified by their obsessive playing of computer games, where they push a button and see “major results” right away). Telling these students that they “will see later in the curriculum” why circuit analysis is useful, does not work; two semesters down the road, or even one, is too far into the future for them. Thus they lose motivation, develop frustration and many become passive learners.
3. They think that software is everything. Being members of the computer games generation, today’s students relate to the computer screen extremely well. This is good, but also has a negative side: Students tend to develop the impression that all that needs to be done is press keys, and somebody else, somewhere, will take care of designing and building the hardware.
In view of the above generational differences, it does not make sense to keep teaching students using techniques that were appropriate half a century ago. Doing so risks losing some of the best minds, or at least turning them off as far as circuits are concerned.
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