Female friendly DSP curriculum for expanding women's opportunities

The paper presents a female -friendly engineering education in digital signal processing (DSP) at Northern Illinois University (NIU), more generally, revising the negative value traditionally placed upon electrical engineering achievement for women. Important tasks are as follows: (1) Design the DSP curricula in female-friendly way. (2) Establish an interactive DSP learners' community by developing appropriate teaching strategies in the class. (3) Offer teaching supplements for the enrolled students.