Teaching Bachelors Electronic Circuits with Electronic System Design in Mind

Abstract

This paper presents the development of Electronic Circuits, an elective course in the final year of computer and digital system engineering Bachelor programmes at Chalmers University of Technology. Serving as a bridge between the traditional circuits perspective of junior-level courses and the electronic system perspective of senior-level courses, the course was developed to lay a foundation for contemporary electronic system design in a manner that spurs student motivation. The course adopts an integrated view of analog circuits, digital circuits, and wires, and this necessitates a new pedagogical flow, including an extensive set of design-oriented exercises.