Increasing student examination rate by use of weekly home assignments

Paper in proceeding, 2008

A new course outline for an introductory course in digital integrated circuit design is presented. While the old course was lecture-oriented the new course has a focus on student-oriented learning through weekly home assignments and hands-on design laboratories. As a result of the new outline the examination rate increased from 60 to 90%: 45 out of 50 students passed the examination and they did so with good grades.