Evaluating the Trend of Revising Courses in Shiraz University and Presenting the Proposed Revised Bachelor Program in Electrical Engineering

In this paper the trend of revising courses in Shiraz University are evaluated and the proposed revised Bachelor Program in Electrical Engineering for this University are presented. This program has been prepared in the framework of the executive procedure rules left to the universities for revising their educational courses. The main trend in revision is to update the educational courses based on the universal growth of electrical science and technology. This has been performed in a reasonable, organized, controlled and soft manner and without any rush to impose radical changes in the fundamental structure of the programs. The guidelines in this trend are considered as: revising the type of general courses in order to offer new general courses in social, ethical, and environmental subjects; revising the content of basic courses so as to be appropriate for offering to different disciplines at Shiraz University as a major large university; and creating, merging and eliminating fundamental and specialized courses based on the latest immerged technologies in the world. Decisively including novel scientific and technological concepts in the coursework contents and using computer and the internet facilities in presenting the course contents; setting a high value on the labs by revising their hardware and software facilities and the contents of the lab experiments; designing the courses to be project oriented and paying attention to the B.S. Projects and encouraging the students to take part in group projects with specified objectives; paying attention to the training course and appointing supervisors to monitor each group of trainees. With the above objectives the proposed revised educational programs for different sub-areas of Electrical Engineering have been developed and the results are presented at the end of the paper.