Work in progress - the integration of hardware area courses in the Computer Engineering Program at UnicenP

The Computer Engineering Program at UnicenP (Centro Universitario Positivo) has an annual serial structure. This paper presents the integration effort of the courses in the hardware area. The focus of this work is the following set of courses: the Computer Engineering Project course of the freshman year, Digital Systems course and Computer Architecture & Organization course, both of the sophomore year and Microprocessors course, of the junior year. This integration effort has as main objective the improvement of the multidisciplinary formation with basis in a continuous integration between theory and practice in engineering. We present the contents developments, the experimental activities and the courses final projects. The interdisciplinary relationships are described as well its contribution for a multidisciplinary formation, pointing out the influence on the increase of the learning level, a consequence of the reinforcement and the integration between theory and practice.