Designing an artificial intelligence course for electrical and computer engineering technology students

Abstract

Undergraduate students in our Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology programs have the option to take an artificial intelligence (AI) course as a junior/senior level technical elective. This course is currently structured as a modified version of a typical computer science AI course, offering a survey of various theoretical techniques presented in a more mathematically accessible way. While the first offering of this course was moderately successful, it should have been tailored more specifically to engineering technology students. This paper discusses lessons learned from this first attempt, and presents a more technology-based project-oriented approach to such a course, outlining a ten week AI course tailored to the needs of our ECET students as well as providing samples of possible projects. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2006.