Abstract
A survey on engineering students' attitude toward intellectual property (IP) education has been conducted in several China's universities, revealing the need for more effective teaching and learning methods. To improve the students' IP awareness and the capability of innovative learning, a small module of patent and circuit design case study has been included in an engineering course, namely, radio-frequency integrated circuit (IC) design, which is offered to senior undergraduate or postgraduate students in a top engineering university in China. Along with the instruction of the RFIC design techniques, the concepts of the IP for the ICs are presented, followed by the analysis of innovative circuits to explore potential legal issues. The feedback of the students suggests that the curriculum is considerably helpful to enrich the knowledge of engineering students in both the design technique and IP awareness.
Highlights
With the tremendous development of technology in recent decades, the engineering education has become an interdisciplinary problem of education, innovation, engineering practice and law, etc., which calls for more innovative teaching and learning methods [1]ā[7]
Due to the diversity of the areas of expertise, itās impossible to provide a unified solution for the students, especially in the area of electrical engineering (EE), which is closely related with other disciplines such as computer science, mechanical engineering, materials science and engineering, and system engineering, etc
The results show that the participants have not sufficient awareness or basic capability of circumventing intellectual property (IP) infringement in pre-innovation work
Summary
With the tremendous development of technology in recent decades, the engineering education has become an interdisciplinary problem of education, innovation, engineering practice and law, etc., which calls for more innovative teaching and learning methods [1]ā[7]. In the area of electrical engineering, e.g., the traditional teaching methods in higher education are currently facing emerging challenges including the effectiveness of learning to meet the desires in the studentsā engineering career, and the gap between the teaching content in the universities and future engineering practices. The ethics in dealing with IP issues and thereby they are capable of carrying out technical innovation without the risks of infringement or being infringed As for the instructor, the professors in IP law are undoubtedly the right instructors to build the background of IP laws, but they are not able to forecast the potential legal issues in the studentsā industrial career due to their lack of knowledge in special engineering areas. The introduction of IP law is arranged at the early stage of the undergraduate program, from which the students acquire general IP knowledge such
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