Education for designers: The electronicker: A passing breed? Fundamental courses are being shaped by the impact of computer-aided design and by the integrated circuit revolution

Once, electrical engineering curricula varied little from one school to the next. In those days, the biggest problems were how to make the material understandable to students and how to motivate them in the less interesting courses that were deemed necessary to provide a rounded EE background. But the invasion of integrated circuit technology has thrown electrical engineering educators into a quandary, leaving some to search for solutions by revising the teaching of fundamentals and others to stress ¿now¿ courses as the best way of dealing with the new roles assigned to electrical engineers.