Implementing outcome based education for microcontrollers

Abstract

The programmable controllers and processors play important role in a wide range of embedded applications. Teaching such subjects in a meaningful way is always a challenging task as the students feel that writing code in assembly and Embedded C is difficult. The programmable controllers and processors are taught to Electrical cluster students which usually include Electronics and Communication Engineering, Telecommunication Engineering, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering and Electrical and Electronics Engineering. The traditional method of teaching these subjects was faculty centric where the teacher teaches the theoretical concepts using blackboard or power point presentation. To enable the students to learn the practical applications, there is a need for a new approach of teaching the subject where in the student's performance is evaluated based on various factors such as communication skills, analytical skills, professional ethics etc. In this direction, the paper focuses on the methods based on Outcome Based Education (OBE), adopted by the author to make the students understand the subject better.