Description
Industry and academia are facing a significant challenge to address the shortage of required workforce to enable the realization of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). To run CPS-engineering projects, engineers are required to have multi-disciplinary technical skills due to the complex nature of CPS that consist of hardware, software and communication systems in a single product. However, having technical skills are not enough since CPS-engineering projects are prone to failure due to lack of social skills of project members. To be prepared for their future work as CPS engineers, students need an opportunity to gather experience in projects in which they face real life situations. This paper proposes a novel task-centric holistic agile teaching approach for teaching CPS-engineering in realistic up-to-date industry-like scenario. This approach especially accentuates the development of social skills. The work presented in this paper describes the implementation of the approach and presents the results of the students’ feedback.
Recommended Citation
Mäkiö-Marusik, Elena; Maekioe, Juho; and Kowal, Jolanta, "Implementation of Task-Centric Holistic Agile Approach on Teaching Cyber Physical Systems Engineering" (2017). AMCIS 2017 Proceedings. 7.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2017/ISEducation/Presentations/7
Implementation of Task-Centric Holistic Agile Approach on Teaching Cyber Physical Systems Engineering
Industry and academia are facing a significant challenge to address the shortage of required workforce to enable the realization of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). To run CPS-engineering projects, engineers are required to have multi-disciplinary technical skills due to the complex nature of CPS that consist of hardware, software and communication systems in a single product. However, having technical skills are not enough since CPS-engineering projects are prone to failure due to lack of social skills of project members. To be prepared for their future work as CPS engineers, students need an opportunity to gather experience in projects in which they face real life situations. This paper proposes a novel task-centric holistic agile teaching approach for teaching CPS-engineering in realistic up-to-date industry-like scenario. This approach especially accentuates the development of social skills. The work presented in this paper describes the implementation of the approach and presents the results of the students’ feedback.