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4 Developing and Institutionalizing CPS Curricula
4 Developing and Institutionalizing CPS Curricula
Pages 60-68
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, and the National Science Foundation can take to strengthen undergraduate CPS education. DRAWING STUDENTS TO CPS Students are likely to be initially attracted to CPS through exposure to CPS-related technical areas such as robotics, autonomous vehicles, and the Internet of Things (IoT)
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Potential roles for industry include the following: • Encouraging industry experts to participate as guest lecturers and adjunct and guest faculty to support the development of CPS programs; • Providing ongoing feedback on the design of CPS courses and curricula and on the preparation of students who work in industry as interns or new hires; and • Providing financial or in-kind support for developing curricular materials, programs, and testbeds that reflect the current state of art. introduce students to CPS concepts, and many are based on robotics.1 By using concrete CPS examples, these programs are an effective way to introduce the concepts of CPS and highlight their correlations with elements of their STEM education.
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FINDING 4.2: Incoming college students appear to be unfamiliar with the term CPS, CPS concepts, and job opportunities in CPS. They are, however, drawn to courses and programs in more widely visible, CPS-related topics such as robotics, the IoT, health care, smart cities, and the Industrial Internet.
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Therefore, developing a specific CPS degree program will create clear opportunities for hiring individuals with a teaching and research background focused specifically on CPS. Retaining The current academic system, in particular tenure and promotion decisions, builds strongly upon the depth in the faculty's own field and through publications that are often discipline limited.
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While the new specialized CPS faculty is emerging, the use of teaching modules may serve to alleviate some of the time and resource constraint placed on educators. The committee envisions that faculty experts in multiple CPS disciplines could then design and co-teach new courses or build course modules so that the students can be jointly taught the combined material.
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Edward Lee and Sanjit Seshia compiled a new textbook, Introduction to Embedded Systems: A Cyber-Physical Systems Approach, when developing their survey course at University of California, Berkeley, because one simply did not exist that met their needs.2 Rajeev Alur also released another text, Principles of Cyber-Physical Systems, in 2015.3 Traditional course textbooks for standard engineering courses, such as controls or signal processing, may not fully incorporate the effects of the physical system on cyber technology, and vice versa. Just as courses will need to be significantly redesigned, so will textbooks.
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Partnerships among institutions and with industry can help share the costs and leverage existing resources, and ensure that testbeds reflect the current state of art and practice. FINDING 4.4: If they are to teach new CPS courses and build CPS programs, universities will need to allocate time and resources to develop CPS course materials and to provide the necessary laboratory space and equipment (including both virtual and physical testbeds)
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Many university administrations already promote teaching and research closely aligned with CPS, such as curricula emphasizing engineering applications with direct societal impact and engineering programs oriented toward interdepartmental teamwork and complex, real-world systems. University administrations can additionally support emerging or planned CPS education by providing the necessary personnel, laboratory space, and initiation grants.
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