A project-oriented course in probability and statistics for undergraduate electrical engineering students

Author

Aburdene, Maurice F. ; Kozick, Richard J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Bucknell Univ., Lewisburg, PA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1997

fDate

5-8 Nov 1997

Firstpage

598

Abstract

An introductory course in probability and statistics for third-year and fourth-year electrical engineering students is described. The course is centered around several computer-based projects that are designed to achieve two objectives. First, the projects illustrate the course topics and provide hands-on experience for the students. The second and equally important objective of the projects is to convey the relevance and usefulness of probability and statistics to practical problems that undergraduate students can appreciate. The benefit of this course as to motivate electrical engineering students to excel in the study of probability concepts, instead of viewing the subject as one more course requirement toward graduation. The authors co-teach the course, and MATLAB is used for mast of the computer-based projects

Keywords

computer aided instruction; educational courses; electrical engineering computing; electrical engineering education; mathematics computing; probability; statistics; teaching; CAI; MATLAB; computer-based projects; probability; project-oriented mathematics course; statistics; student motivation; teaching; undergraduate electrical engineering students; Computer languages; Distributed computing; Education; Histograms; Mathematical model; Probability; Random number generation; Scattering; Signal to noise ratio; Statistics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Education Conference, 1997. 27th Annual Conference. Teaching and Learning in an Era of Change. Proceedings.

Conference_Location

Pittsburgh, PA

ISSN

0190-5848

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4086-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.1997.635870

Filename

635870