Description of the course
develops undergraduate student knowledge and skills students on the design and development of a complete project in Electronics, Communication and Information Engineering. Students develop and demonstrate a hardware and software system. The course has been updated to include design thinking principles.
Description of the participants
This is a mandatory course in the 3rd year of the Bachelors in Electronics, Communication and Information Engineering program conducted by the Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Pulchowk Campus, Institute of Engineering (IOE), Tribhuvan University. A total of 48 undergraduate students engaged in the course in the spring 2024 semester.
Description of gamified design thinking activities
Work was organized in design thinking steps following the same format described above in the “Minor Project Computer” course. The following steps were used:
Step 1. Team introduction.
Students were asked to create teams and select a team name.
Step 2. Project proposal.
Students worked in their teams to select a theme for their project. They were asked to post the title and a short description of their project along with their team’s name and group members on the ICT-INOV digital learning platform. They presented their project topic in class and uploaded links to their presentations on the platform.
Step 3. Mid-term presentation and report.
Student presented the mid-term progress report of the project. They posted links to their mid-term report and presentation slides on the ICT-INOV digital learning platform. They further posted characteristic photos of the system under development as well as links to their source code and datasets.
Step 4. Final presentation and report.
Students presented the final implementation of their project and corresponding implementation report. They uploaded the presentations on the course shared digital space and posted the links on the ICT-INOV digital learning platform. Furthermore, students posted on the ICT-INOV platform links to their source code and datasets and characteristics screenshots of their implemented project.
