Summary
There is an increasing demand for well trained software talents in embedded application fields. Because embedded systems usually have complex requirements, higher standards are set for qualified embedded engineers’ technical and soft skills. Considering the challenges imposed to the embedded system education, and given the resource constraints in universities, in this paper, we propose a practical embedded system curriculum for software engineering undergraduate programs. This curriculum consists of software engineering fundamentals, domain fundamentals and embedded system core courses. The two-phase embedded system core courses are aimed at improving students’ abstracting and hands-on abilities in solving embedded system problems. The contents of these courses are selected according to the requirements from industry on the qualifications of embedded engineers. The implemented curriculum provides an proactive learning setting accepted by students. Close cooperation with industry is essential to the successful implementation of this curriculum.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Learn about institutional subscriptionsPreview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Turley, J.: Embedded Processors by the Numbers. Embedded Systems Programming 12(5) (May 1999)
Koopman, P., Choset, H., Gandhi, R., et al.: Undergraduate embedded system education at Carnegie Mellon. ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems 4(3), 500–528 (2005)
Pak, S., Rho, E., Chang, J., et al.: Demand-driven curriculum for embedded system software in Korea. ACM SIGBED Review 2(4), 15–19 (2005)
Wang, H., Wang, T.: Curriculum of Embedded System for Software Colleges. In: Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE/ASME International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications, Beijing, August 2006, pp. 1–5 (2006)
Gross, H., van Gemund, A.: The Delft MS curriculum on embedded systems. ACM SIGBED Review 4(1), 1–10 (2007)
IEEE Computer Society/ACM Joint Task Force. Software Engineering 2004 - Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs in Software Engineering (2004)
Wolf, W.: Computers as Components: Principles of Embedded Computer System Design. Morgan Kaufman, San Francisco (2000)
Hall, S.R., Waitz, I., Brodeur, D., et al.: Adoption of active learning in a lecture-based engineering class. Frontiers in Education 1 (2002)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Shen, G. (2008). An Embedded System Curriculum for Undergraduate Software Engineering Program. In: Lee, R. (eds) Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 150. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70561-1_16
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70561-1_16
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-70774-5
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-70561-1
eBook Packages: EngineeringEngineering (R0)