Work in Progress: An Analysis of Correlations in Student Performance in Core Technical Courses at a Large Public Research Institution's Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

摘要

The National Science Foundation is supporting our Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department at Colorado State University (CSU) through their "Revolutionizing Engineering and Computer Science Department" (RED) program. As the focus of this project, we propose to remove the artificial barrier that a traditional course-based curriculum creates. To aide in doing so, we seek to understand the relationships of student performance between technical courses within the ECE curriculum. In particular, we begin by studying the performance between the three core junior level topics, i.e., electronics, electromagnetics, and signals and systems, each spanning two semesters.