An Introduction to Scholar Teams: A Method to Enhance DSP Education and Competence

This paper introduces the concept of scholar teams (STs), discusses strategies to successfully implement STs, overviews the results of the first two years of comprehensive ST trials conducted in the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department at North Dakota State University (NDSU), and details a specific ST, the digital signal processing (DSP) ST, to illustrate the benefits of STs, particularly from a DSP education perspective