Electronics Courses for Science and Technology Teachers

摘要

Studying engineering has become less attractive to high school students in Slovenia since the beginning of the 1990s. Faculties of electrical, computer, mechanical and civil engineering faced a drop in the number and/or quality of freshmen students. At the Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana, we considered that the knowledge and skills of middle and high school teachers of science and technology might contribute to change these trends. To this end, an existing course in electronics for pre-service teachers was modified to emphasize project-based work, integration of science and engineering disciplines, implementation of data acquisition systems, introduction of state-of-the-art topics, etc. The course structure and examples of students' projects are outlined in the paper.