WESE 2016 - Workshop on Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems Education (WESE 2016)

Description: Embedded and cyber-physical systems design require multidisciplinary skills from many areas such as control, signal processing, electronics, computer engineering and science, networking, physical systems modeling, etc., as well as application domain knowledge. The increasing integration, scale and penetration of embedded and cyber-physical systems into virtually all facets of our lives, has a number of important implications for education and training. The range of multidisciplinary topics are steadily increasing, now encompassing embedded systems integrated with the internet, safety and security concerns, life-cycle integration, and so on. Moreover, beyond multidisciplinary design capabilities, other, capabilities are needed to bridge the gap between market, business, and technology. This shift makes quality education including life-long learning even more important, and motivates extra efforts for revising programs and courses, exchange of best practices and for industry academia collaboration.
The WESE workshop series aims to bring researchers, educators, and industrial representatives together to assess needs and share design, research, and experiences in embedded and cyber-physical systems education. WESE addresses questions such as “What skills and capabilities are required by the engineers of tomorrow”, “How should the corresponding educational programs be formed”, and “How can effective pedagogic methods be introduced in this domain”?
Workshop organization: WESE traditionally places emphasis on the sharing of experiences and active community dialogue. This year we take a further step in this direction by adopting a “flipped classroom” setting by introducing and stimulating preparatory actions by presenters and participants. Both the proceedings and feedback on accepted papers will be made available online prior to the workshop. Presenters will be asked to provide feedback for a few papers and participants will further be encouraged to read provided papers beforehand. As a consequence, while invited talks and papers will be provided as usual, regular presentations will be shorter ? focusing on key takeaways, thus providing more time for discussions at the workshop. The ambition is to capture the content of the discussions in some form of white paper and to pave the way for the creation of a WESE community for exchange of ideas extending the momentum of WESE.
Call for papers: Regular and Work-in progress papers are invited for WESE 2016.
Particular topics of interest include:
? Industrial needs regarding embedded and cyber-physical systems education
? Experiences and trade-offs in course and curricula design and implementation
? Experiences of educational forms, e.g. MOOCs and remote labs
? Position papers regarding the curricula of tomorrow.
? Hands-on experiences, labs, “industry as lab”
? Educational aspects of
o Embedded systems, Cyber-physical systems, Internet-of-Things
o Embedded Control, Interfaces to the physical world
o Real-time computing and Distributed systems issues
o Architecture, design and hardware/software co-design
o Embedded system networks
o Applications of embedded and cyber-physical systems