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- Electronic Devices and Circuits I
- Electronic Devices and Circuits II
- Digital Circuits I
- Digital Signal Processing
- Digital Circuits II
- Advanced Analogue Circuits
- Fundamentals of Microelectronics
- Application of Microprocessors |
- Power Electronics
- Real-Time Control Systems
- Design of Integrated Circuits I
- Design Methods in Electronics
- Design of Microcontroller Systems
- Design of Integrated Circuits II
- Digital Image Processing
- Embedded Hardware Design |
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This will be the starting point of the project. The final list of courses will be developed within the project. It is also planned to introduce at least two new courses. At the moment, responsibility of the Department of Electronics at University of Belgrade covers 13 courses, some of them lasting for two semesters. All of the courses will be modified, and will become one-semester courses, according to the requirements of the Bologna Declaration. The final course of studies will be European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) compatible.
EU consortium members will provide the necessary leadership and experience to the project. Consortium members will allow the flow of students from FRY to the EU universities and back. The returning students will help in further improvement of the course of study at their alma mater.
The proposed changes of the course of study will be warmly welcomed by the students, as it will give them a better quality of education, with much greater practical experience through numerous project works, and, even more importantly, will enable students to finish undergraduate studies within a reasonable period of time (at the moment it takes, on average, eight years to complete the coursework), thus helping the economy of the region on one hand by lowering the price of educating an engineer, and, on the other hand, giving the society better educated engineers at a younger age.
The teachers involved in the project will be trained during the proposed Tempus project in order to technically unify the teaching activities and standardise the level of teaching. Also, specific laboratories will be equipped and thus both the teachers and the students will have proper surrounding for implementation of the project work. The best students, after spending some time at the EU consortium member institutions, will be included as teaching assistants in the teaching stuff at the regional universities. This will greatly improve the teacher to student ratio, which is very poor at the moment, having very few teachers serving enormous number of students. At the same time, these students will train their teaching assistant successors, and thus ensure the sustainability of the system.
During the project, we would achieve the following objectives:
- Syllabi and curricula of the targeted courses will be restructured and/or completely created, if necessary. According to the newly generated curricula, new textbooks will be created. It is planned that ten professors will participate in this part of the project, and it is expected that ten new books will be published, accompanied by ten laboratory manuals. The targeted courses are both at undergraduate and graduate level. During this part of the project, at least two new courses will be introduced at the regional universities.
- Laboratories will be modernised in order to provide students with the knowledge they would easily apply in their everyday professional practice. This part of education will be extensively addressed in new curricula, since the lab work is the worst part in the present curricula. We plan to introduce new equipment, and to create new laboratory exercises, as well as introduce term projects in all advanced courses.
- Teachers will be educated to implement the new teaching methods. We plan to enable each of the teachers involved in the project to visit the universities in the EU, in order to get the experience, transfer, and apply it in redesigned courses. In this part of the project, we plan to include students that are about to get their degree in the exchange. Our plan is to include the best of our students, having in mind that most of them will be employed as teaching assistants after they graduate; thus they should be trained according to European standards.
- Regional libraries will be enriched with new books and laboratory manuals from other universities, to provide a basis for the knowledge transfer. These books and manuals will serve as a model to create new courses and new textbooks that meet requirements of new teaching standards.
- Student exchange will be provided during the project, in order to get some experience with this process, proposed by the Bologna Declaration. This is planned to be a part of the testing process for the results obtained, since the student exchange should be enabled by the curricula standardisation.
Within the mentioned outcomes, it is planned to introduce the quality control system, in order to keep the results obtained during the project in the years to come. Since all Serbian universities that offer programs that yield to B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering participate in the project, it is planned that professors disseminate the results they obtained among the universities, as well as at other regional universities that plan to establish EE departments.
Management of the project is planned as follows:
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Consortium meetings are planned twice a year, at EU consortium member institution at the beginning of each year, and FRY universities in the middle of each year, to monitor the progress.
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Progress reports will be made every year, stating the results obtained and the progress made.
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After the project is completed, final report will be made and published, indicating all of the results obtained, and all of the procedures required to keep the results in everyday teaching practice.
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