A teaching approach applied to the introductory circuit analysis course in electrical/electrironic engineering is discussed. a primary feature is that all attempts to constrain student usage of simulators are rejected. The approach is implemented as a...
A teaching approach applied to the introductory circuit analysis course in electrical/electrironic engineering is discussed. a primary feature is that all attempts to constrain student usage of simulators are rejected. The approach is implemented as a learning sequence;a presimulation thought process.Then a simulation is followed by a post-simulation thought process.The laboratory notebook illustrates the thought-to -paper conversion process inherent within the presimulation learning experience. Notebook scribbings, characterized by the student as a "thinking schematic", are decoded by the instructor for the purpose of developing teaching materials including new problems that cannot be immediately submitted to a simulator. The printed data produced by the simulation are processed during the post-simulation learning experience for the purpose of interpreting network behavior.