Workshop on 21st Century Cyber-Physical Systems Education: Defining Needs and Identifying Challenges
April 30, 2014 | National Academy of Sciences | Washington, D.C.
http://sites.nationalacademies.org/cstb/CSTB_087601
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The Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the National Academies hosted a workshop on 21st Century Cyber-Physical Systems Education: Defining Needs and Identifying Challenges. The workshop was held in Washington, DC on April 30, 2014.
The organizing committee has been tasked to examine how to better educate a workforce that increasingly designs, develops, and maintains cyber-physical systems. That is, how do education and training programs respond to the shift in which an increasingly fraction of functionality and value of products and services comes from software, and in which software systems are increasingly embedded in physical contexts. The work is supported by the National Science Foundation and additional information on the project as well as the members of the study committee can be found here.
The workshop produced a report which can be found here.
PROGRAM AGENDA
THURSDAY, APRIL 30 | |
0830 - 0845 | Introduction and Welcome from Workshop Co-Chairs Jack Stankovic (University of Virginia) Jim Sturges (Lockheed Martin - retired) |
0845 - 1000 | The Importance of Cyber-Physical Systems
David Corman (NSF) |
1000 - 1015 | Break |
1015 - 1200 | Current and Anticipated Workforce Needs
Lucio Soibelman (University of Southern California) Craig Stephens (Ford Research and Advanced Engineering) Jon Williams (John Deere) Moderator: Bill Milam, Ford |
1200 - 1300 | Lunch |
1300 - 1430 | Knowledge, Capabilities, and Skills Needed in a CPS Workforce Each sector deploying cyber-physical systems has tended to work independently of others in developing the necessary science, engineering, workplace skills, and regulatory approach--reflecting in part the historically modest "cyber content" of most systems and organic efforts to solve the problems at hand. Today, there is growing interest in seeking advances with common application in science and engineering (including scientific and engineering principles, algorithms, models, and theories); tools (including programming languages and tools for reasoning about the properties of CPS); and building blocks (innovative hardware and software components, infrastructure, and platforms).
Kevin Massey (DARPA) John Mills (SimuQuest) Sanjai Rayadurgam (University of Minnesota) Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli (UC Berkeley) Moderator: Insup Lee, University of Pennsylvania |
1430 - 1445 | Break |
1445 - 1600 | Challenges and Opportunities in CPS Education To make progress in the CPS education pipeline, it will be important to understand the nature of current barriers and to develop strategies to overcome them. One challenge is the multidisciplinary character of educational foundations for CPS literacy. Looking across computer science, electrical engineering, and other engineering disciplines will be critical. Moreover, the audience for education in CPS is not found only in a traditional academic context where disciplines and knowledge are relatively settled. The challenges also include re-educating today's faculty, devising new preparation paths for university computer science and engineering students, upgrading K-12 teachers and the K-12 pipeline, as well as the existing workforce. New modalities for lab-centric, team-taught, and online education are emerging, which merit investigation as potential tools for accelerating progress toward a more CPS-capable workforce and society.
Ryan Izard (Clemson University) George Pappas (UPenn) Moderator: Sanjoy Mitter (MIT) |
1600 - 1615 | Break |
1615 - 1730 | Summary and Discussion Chuck Farrar (Los Alamos Laboratories) Himanshu Khurana (Honeywell International) Paulo Tabuada (University of California, Los Angeles) Moderators: Jim Sturges (Lockheed Martin - retired) |
1730 | Adjourn |