Link Multiple Courses to Enhance Students' Hands-on Practice on Microprocessor Systems

Abstract

Hands-on practice is an important fact to students' success, especially to the students who study in the field of Electrical Engineering and Electrical Engineering Technology (EET). Electronics systems have become so complex nowadays because of the high-density integrated circuits are widely used that it is hard for students to grasp the information about the systems in one course, especially microcontroller systems. In order to help students do more hands-on practice and understand a microprocessor system deeply, linking several courses together by using the same microcontroller was proposed in this paper. From the students' feedback, the setup really helps students do hands-on work on microprocesses with more confidence. The setup also helps the program reduce lab maintenance cost.