Undergraduate embedded system education at carnegie mellon

✍ Scribed by Koopman, Philip; Smailagic, Asim; Steenkiste, Peter; Thomas, Donald E.; Wang, Chenxi; Choset, Howie; Gandhi, Rajeev; Krogh, Bruce; Marculescu, Diana; Narasimhan, Priya

• Book ID: 111953711
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 159 KB
• Volume: 4
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1539-9087
• DOI: 10.1145/1086519.1086522

✦ Synopsis

Embedded systems encompass a wide range of applications, technologies, and disciplines, necessitating a broad approach to education. We describe embedded system coursework during the first 4 years of university education (the U.S. undergraduate level). Embedded application curriculum areas include: small and single-microcontroller applications, control systems, distributed embedded control, system-on-chip, networking, embedded PCs, critical systems, robotics, computer peripherals, wireless data systems, signal processing, and command and control. Additional cross-cutting skills that are important to embedded system designers include: security, dependability, energy-aware computing, software/systems engineering, real-time computing, and human--computer interaction. We describe lessons learned from teaching courses in many of these areas, as well as general skills taught and approaches used, including a heavy emphasis on course projects to teach system skills.