Female friendly DSP curriculum for expanding women´s opportunities

Author

Liu, Lichuan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb, IL, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

25-30 March 2012

Firstpage

2757

Lastpage

2760

Abstract

The paper presents a female -friendly engineering education in digital signal processing (DSP) at Northern Illinois University (NIU), more generally, revising the negative value traditionally placed upon electrical engineering achievement for women. Important tasks are as follows: (1) Design the DSP curricula in female-friendly way. (2) Establish an interactive DSP learners´ community by developing appropriate teaching strategies in the class. (3) Offer teaching supplements for the enrolled students.

Keywords

electrical engineering education; gender issues; signal processing; teaching; Northern Illinois University; digital signal processing; electrical engineering; female friendly DSP curriculum; female-friendly engineering education; teaching strategies; teaching supplements; women opportunities; Communities; Digital signal processing; Educational institutions; Electrical engineering; Materials; Mathematics; Digital signal processing (DSP); connected knowing; female-friendly; separate knowing; support group;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2012 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kyoto

ISSN

1520-6149

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0045-2

Electronic_ISBN

1520-6149

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASSP.2012.6288488

Filename

6288488