Practice-Oriented Engineering Education: Introducing COMSOL Multiphysics Software to Printed Electronics Course

Printed electronics are stealing attraction in education and study and sharing wide range of market due to capability of flexibility, wide-area, low-cost, eco-friendly and mass-producing. However, printed electronics course is appearing as a temporary challenge to student who are major in typical Microelectronics. It is mainly caused from that printed electronics course is dependence of printing tools and organic materials which differ from typical principle of silicon based electronics, and thus many errors are appearing in student design and manufacturing. For the one route to deal these errors, in the printed electronics course, COMSOL Multiphysics software which can simulate operating characteristics of electronics devices is combined with our typical education of printing tools and organic materials. Comparisons are of between improved course and typical course of same period. For the same periods, in the improved course which is combined with simulation software, periods of each sections of course are compressed than typical course. According to a comparison result, by combining simulation software, final grades of student who educated from improved course are higher than that of student who educated from typical course(without of the simulation software) and it is founded that the new improved course stimulate student’s creativity and encourage enthusiasm for study.