Journal of Engineering Education Transformations

M. Rajendra Prasad ¹, D. Krishna Reddy ²

Affiliations
1 Department of ECE, Vidya Jyothi of Technology, Hyderabad, IN
2 Department of ECE, Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, IN

Abstract

An Embedded System is an integration and combination of customized hardware and optimized software designed for a specific function running continously. In recent years, the usage of Embedded Systems all over the globe has increased drastically in different domains of engineering and its applications. There are more opportunites for a fresh engineer with embedded expertise skills. The manpowr require with these skills is a hot cake in the Industry. Designing a curriculum for embedded system course in engineering education is certainly a challenging task and shout meet the requirements of the Industry standards. Today exploring different ideas and innovation of new techniques are mandatory for a fresh engineering graduate. Hence Project based active learning teaching methodology is essential in the area of Embedded System Engineering and Micro Processors & Micro Controllers courses. A project based and active learning teaching methodology is developed and applied to these courses. This paper presents the procedure to implement a teaching methodology to develop embedded systems for different applications in the area of Engineering Education. This paper also discusses the results for the case study projects for the above mentioned courses. This teaching methodology is applied for ARM9 processor based embedded system development project used for telecom applications and the outcome of these courses are explained with the results. The outcome of this course is a research paper presented at National Conference is also discussed.

Keywords

Embedded System, Embedded Engineering Education, Micro Processor and Micro Controller, Active Learning Methodology, Course.

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K. Vasanth ¹, C. N. Ravi ¹, A. Padmaja ², M. Rajendra Prasad ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of ECE, Vidya Jyothi Institute of Technology, Aziz Nagar, Chilukur Road, Hyderabad - 500075, IN
2 Principal, Vidya Jyothi Institute of Technology, Aziz Nagar, Chilukur Road, Hyderabad - 500075, IN

Abstract

Over the years, various teaching methodologies such as socio constructive perspective, group projects, Mind Map, Z to A approach, Role play, Brown Bag were used to deliver engineering education easily to students so that they retain the concepts well. This paper deals with an effective teaching methodology named "Never Miss a Class" designed for 2K engineering students. The Method uses a video prepared by the instructor that briefs the content that happened in the class. If a student is absent for the concerned class then the instructor uploads the video to the students broadcast group on their personal phone (namely Whats app Group). The advantage of this technique is that even if the student misses the class, the video will be available with him at any time for learning. This is effective for numerical based papers in Engineering. The proposed teaching methodology is implemented on the second and third year students of Electronics and Communication Engineering of Vidya Jyothi institute of technology, Hyderabad. The effectiveness of the proposed technique is vivid when compared with other conventional teaching methodologies, when the former has good end exam results and the concept retaining capability of the students, when compared to latter. A proposed teaching methodology surpasses other methods thereby enabling the students to reproduce the concepts during their semester exam, or questioned elsewhere.

Keywords

Innovative Teaching Practices, Outcome Based Education, Learner Centric Approach.

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