ECE 5 -  Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering 

About This Course

The primary focus of this course is to give freshmen students confidence, motivation, and insight into what is to come in the rest of their undergraduate careers through a series of hands-on projects. ECE 5 consists of 4 main labs covering 4 emphases: Communication, Analog Circuits, Digital Signal/Image Processing, and Embedded Systems and Control. The labs allow students to develop practical hard skills including programming in C and MATLAB, soldering, building circuits, and using microcontrollers, oscilloscopes, function generators, power sources, multimeters and 3D printers. The students also work on their soft skills communicating, planning and working within teams to complete challenges tasked to them in each of the 4 labs. ECE 5 students are also encouraged to be creative with open-ended projects leveraging Arduinos and abundant choices of tools, sensors, and actuators so that they can further explore ECE concepts outside of class. 

This course is offered by the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering. 

Credit: 4 units