Our overall effectiveness as educators is inextricably meshed with the quality of hands-on laboratory experiences that we can provide to our students. Indeed, a distinctive feature of the ECEDHA Annual Conferences  is the inclusion of an industry ECExpo. I have always enjoyed wandering the hallways of the ECExpo and learning about the latest tools that the industry has to offer. Another distinctive aspect of ECEDHA itself is the vitality of our corporate advisory council  that is populated by industry experts and thought leaders who are especially engaged with ECE departments. Finally, ECEDHA conferences have a wonderful tradition of engaging with local host universities.

 

In this issue of the ECE Source, we are pleased to spotlight Host University UC Berkeley, led by EECS Chair Jeffrey Bokor. We are also delighted to feature perspectives from two of ECEDHA's corporate members. Tom Lee, Chief Education Officer at Quanser has penned a fascinating article about the new and increasingly complex, and digitally connected world of design education. Brad Jolly, Applications Engineer at Keysight Technologies, another industry leader in the education and research space, ponders the top ten areas of opportunity and challenge for ECE faculty and students.

Over the past five decades, the engineering education community have explored and established effective techniques to teach design. In the emerging world of transformational technologies of IoT, sustainable energy, machine intelligence, etc., the question of whether the existing successes can readily adapt to these emerging realities is triggering some vigorous discussions among faculty.

The contributions of ECE continue to accelerate technology breakthroughs at the heart of how we function and engage in society. Below we briefly describe ten exciting ECE contribution areas where Keysight Technologies plays that will provide both opportunity and challenge for the foreseeable future.

The ball is rolling. A growing community is coming together to reimagine electrical and computer engineering education, and we want you to be a part of it.

Mark your calendar for the 2018 ECEDHA Annual Conference and ECExpo to be held March 16-20, 2018, in Monterey, California.

From creating more accurate and positive perceptions about our discipline to tackling declining enrollments and diversity issues, join us in Monterey to change the future of ECE.