Innovative Engineering Education in Circuits and Systems

Nowadays, the field of microelectronics has become the drive for the advancement of the times, which promotes new demands on the cultivation of the students in colleges and universities. In order to keep up with the trend of the global engineering educational reform, three important reforms in education have been in progress step by step, including classroom teaching, innovative training and virtual laboratories. At first, for enhancing and integrating the existing courses related to the circuit, so that the students can comprehend the existing knowledge much more effectively, an important and effective curriculum reform has been performed by combining “Circuit Analysis” and “Analog Circuit Foundation” into one course; Then, innovative training has been carried out to cultivate the team skills among the students; Finally, in consideration of the rapid development of the electrical and electronic experiment, the conventional laboratory equipment may not satisfy the demand of every student due to financial constraints, therefore, the construction of virtual simulation experiment center is an efficient way to break this bottleneck. As a result, the atmosphere of academic innovation of the pursuit of truth, advocacy of science, brave exploration, dare to practice have been formed in colleges and universities through the above innovative engineering education reform

coconceptmap: a system for collaborative concept mapping

Concept mapping is a technique for visualizing the relationships between different concepts, and collaborative concept mapping is used to model knowledge and transfer expert knowledge. Because of lacking some features,existing systems can’t support collaborative concept mapping effectively. In this paper, we analysis the collaborative concept mapping process according to the theory of distributed cognition, and argue the functions effective systems ought to include. A collaborative concept mapping system should have the following features: visualization of concept map, flexible collaboration style,supporting natural interaction, knowledge management and history management. Furthermore, we describe every feature in details. Finally,a prototype system has been built to fully explore the above technologies