Embedded Engineering Education

Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 R. Szewczyk et al. (eds.), Embedded Engineering Education, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 421,... 

System integration of many hardware and software modules in embedded systems makes testing and verification the key success factors in embedded solutions [8]. Therefore, testing and verification methodology reflects as a big challenge for embedded engineering education. 

A generic model of embedded solutions would be very helpful to structure the embedded engineering education. Variety of embedded applications makes this abstraction very demanding. Our approach, shown in Fig. 1, could be a useful contribution in this direction. 

The embedded engineering education should cover aU these specific challenges of embedded solutions ... 

Development-or-recombination approach. Often embedded solutions only require a recombination of already available units in a new context but in some other problems development of new units (knowledge or implementation) could be also required. Recognition of re-using opportunities requires a complex up-down learning process how to abstract solution from a field and how to apply such abstracted approach in another field. Therefore, a usable formal abstraction of concrete problems and solutions should be covered by embedded engineering education. 

Balance between fundamental principles and practical usage of concrete platforms. Embedded engineering education faces a big dilemma— how to learn general principles which should be trained on variety of concrete platforms. Some solutions tend to establish a unified but extensible lab platform which can be used to train fundamental principles without introducing overload of new platforms in the labs. 

Covering these challenges we tried to give a formalized approach for embedded engineering education as a contribution to establish a structured embedded engineering study program. 

In this paper we propose a structural approach for engineering curriculum using formal expressions of all identified items in the education process. Additionally, specifics of embedded engineering education will be considered. 

The engineering education process should/can be stractured using formal approaches. In this paper we propose some improvements in the formal approach of engineering education considering specifics of embedded engineering. The embedded engineering education process could be formally expressed using the known flow chart in Fig. 3. 

A study curriculum is defined by study courses. They should be defined as learning-sustainable units respecting previous education experience. Courses are subdivided in lessons accompanied with appropriate practical exercises. The course constraction is primary allocated at universities. But, regarding specifics of embedded engineering education, industry needs and experiences should be also incorporated in the definition of study courses. This influence of industrial experiences is especially important for incorporation of soft skills (teamwork, project management)... 

Necessary interactions between university and industry in the embedded engineering education can be achieved using different models. We would propose one of them based on close collaborations between faculties and companies as shown in Fig. 6. 

Evident importance of the embedded engineering education requires new innovative concepts to create and to implement the corresponding study programs. The main challenges in these considerations include ... 

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Rogina, B.M. et al. Exercises for Embedded Engineering Letiming Platform, chapter in Springer special edition book Embedded Engineering Education, in this book... 

Anastassova, M., Souvestre, F., Artetxe Gonzalez, E., Setien Gutierrez, A., Lopez Benito, J.R., Barak, M. Learner-centered evrduation of an augmented reality system for embedded engineering education. In Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS), Warsaw, Poland (2014)... 

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