Members of the Penn State Great Valley faculty are leading the charge to expand engineering programs nationwide with a discipline that focuses on the Internet of Things (IoT) and cyber-physical systems (CPS), writes Dian Schaffhauser for Campus Technology.
Penn State Great Valley’s Joanna DeFranco, an Assistant Professor of Software Engineering, and Mohamad Kassab, an Associate Research Professor of Software Engineering, have co-authored a paper with Jeffrey Voas, a National Institute of Standards and Technology computer scientist. They argue that new engineering disciplines tend to “follow the newest technologies,” and IoT and CPS fit that bill.
Fellow Penn State Great Valley professor Phillip Laplante worked with Voas to identify five core topics that would describe the “Network of Things” and identified 18 already existing knowledge areas in computer science studies “that correspond well with understanding IoT.”
The paper offers a list of IoT/CPS course examples, such as classes that could focus on designing embedded and CPS systems with real-time behaviors or CPS architecture and vulnerabilities to cyber-attacks.
The researchers also laid out a potential growth plan for the program, starting with electives and evolving into full degrees.
Read more in Campus Technology here.
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