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Abstract— As in any discipline, in Computer Engineering,
students start learning the basic concepts of the discipline in their
first year through an Introduction to Computer Engineering
course. The topics toughed in thiscourse can be grouped into
two. The first group includes simple concepts like binary
numbering system, hard disk, memory, and I/O devices. In the
second group, an introduction to the courses that they will take in
the next semesters of the program which includes programming,
networking, software engineering, artificial intelligence and
database systems. The main objective of this course isto give an
introduction about the general concepts of the field to the first
year Computer Engineering students and prepare them to
understand the connections between them for their future
studies.

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However, students and instructors face with many problems in
this course. First, because of the diversity of the concepts given in
the course, it is very difficult for the students to see the big
picture of the Computer Engineering domain. Similarly, it is
difficult for the instructors toprepare the course content in an
integrated manner at the students’ level. Additionally, the
perception of the theory and practice behind the hardware and
software topics and their connections is not an easy task for the
beginners. Moreover, the topics are mostly abstract topics, which
do not allow application of any laboratory sessions. Students
usually find this course difficult tounderstand, which decreases
their motivation about the department and success of the course.
This study is established to propose a concept map approach
to better visualize and discover all the connections between the
concepts of Computer Engineering field which can be used in the
curriculum of the programs and introductory courses of the field
addressing the above problems. The proposed conceptmap helps
to visualize the general picture of the field.

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