Autor(es):
Tavares, Adriano 
; Ekpanyapong, M. ; Cabral, Jorge ; Cardoso, Paulo Francisco da Silva ; Mendes, Jos?? A. ; Monteiro, Jo??o L.
Data: 2012
Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/15715
Origem: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
Assunto(s): Embedded systems teaching
Descrição
Nowadays, embedded systems are central to modern life,
mainly due to the scienti???c and technological advances of the last decades
that started a new reality in which the embedded systems market has
been growing steadily, along with a monthly or even weekly emergence
of new products with di???erent applications across several domains. This
embedded system ubiquity was the drive for the following question ???Why
should we focus on embedded systems design???? that was answered in [1,
2] with the following points: (1) high and fast penetration in products
and services due to the integration of networking, operating system and
database capabilities, (2) very strategic ???eld economically and (3) a new
and relatively unde???ned subject in academic environment. Other adja-
cent questions have been raised such as ???Why is the design of embedded
systems special????. The answer for this last question is based mainly on
several problems raised by the new technologies, such as the need for
more human resources in specialized areas and high learning curve for
system designers. As pointed in [1], these problems can prevent many
companies from adopting these new technologies or force them not to
respond timely in mastering these technological and market challenges.
In this paper, it is described how sta??? at ESRG-UMinho
1
and ISE-AIT
2
faced the embedded systems challenges at several levels. It starts to de-
scribe the development of the educational context for the new technolo-
gies and show how our Integrated Master Curriculum in Industrial Elec-
tronics and Computer Engineering has been adapted to satisfy the needs
of the major university customers, the industry.
