An introduction to engineering with signal processing

Engineers of the 21st century will work in an environment that will require a variety of skills that include not only traditional engineering topics but that also includes more emphasis on topics such as communications, teamwork, the design/process/manufacture steps for taking a concept to a product, and combining the techno-scientific base with a societal context. This paper discusses a pilot section of a freshman course entitled Engineering Projects that is designed to introduce new students to engineering through a design-oriented course in which students “learn by doing”. This course is part of the curriculum being developed for the Integrated Teaching Laboratory (ITL) that is being built at the University of Colorado to provide interdisciplinary design and development experiences for engineering students beginning at the freshman level