OBE-Driven Teaching Reform and Practice of Embedded Systems
Year: 2026
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Outcome-Based Education (OBE) has become a core guideline for engineering education accreditation. However, traditional embedded systems curricula in local universities often lack systematic design and integration with AI technology, failing to cultivate students’ ability to solve complex engineering problems. This paper presents an OBE-driven curriculum reform for embedded systems, centered on the STM32 microcontroller as a unified teaching carrier. The reform constructs a four-tier curriculum cluster (basic-advanced-high-level-comprehensive application) and a "teaching-practice-competition" progressive training model. A key innovation is the integration of tinyML into STM32 teaching: students deploy lightweight AI models (e.g., human infrared detection) on STM32F103C8T6, completing the full process from hardware design to AI inference. Implemented among 350 electronic information majors during 2021-2024, the reform achieved remarkable results: the rate of independent completion of STM32+AI projects increased from 33% to 82%, and students won 21 provincial-level awards in electronic design competitions. This paper details the OBE closed-loop design (Program Outcomes → Course Outcomes → Teaching Content → Evaluation), providing a replicable teaching model for embedded systems education in local undergraduate institutions.
Institution: Bozhou University
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7155649342