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Workshop Agendas
APRIL 30, 2014
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
WASHINGTON, D.C.
The goal for this workshop is to gain an understanding of the need for cyber physical systems workers, the impact of CPS on various sectors, core skills and knowledge, and educational barriers. Questions include:
- What are CPS, and how does it relate to engineering, computer science, and other related disciplines?
- What role do CPS play in sustaining innovation and supporting U.S. competitiveness and economic growth?
- What sorts of jobs require CPS knowledge and skills? (e.g., engineering design, test and evaluation, operations)
- Where does one find this talent today? How much of the needed knowledge and skills are covered in undergraduate degree programs or graduate education? How much on-the-job training is required?
- What are the core knowledge areas, capabilities, and skills that individuals working in CPS-intensive fields need? How do they map onto traditional undergraduate degree programs and courses in engineering and computer science? What areas are covered in graduate programs and courses?
- Where are there gaps in courses, textbooks and other course materials, teaching tools, curricula, and degree programs?
- What are the barriers in the educational pipeline to developing needed CPS knowledge, skills, and capabilities?
8:30 a.m. | Introduction and Welcome Jack Stankovic, University of Virginia, Co-Chair Jim Sturges, Lockheed Martin (retired), Co-Chair |
8:45 |
The Importance of Cyber Physical Systems Moderator: Jack Stankovic Panelists: David Corman, National Science Foundation
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10:00 | Break |
10:15 |
Current and Anticipated Workforce Needs Moderator: Bill Milam Panelists: Dick Bulterman, FXPAL
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12:00 p.m. | Lunch |
1:00 |
Knowledge, Capabilities, and Skills Needed in a CPS Workforce Moderator: Insup Lee Panelists: Dan Johnson, Honeywell [remotely] 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).
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2:30 | Break |
2:45 |
Challenges and Opportunities in CPS Education Moderator: Sanjoy Mitter Panelists: Alex Bayen, University of California, Berkeley 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.
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4:00 | Break |
4:15 |
Summary and Discussion Moderator: Jim Sturges
Panelists: Chuck Farrar, Los Alamos Laboratories |
5:30 | Adjourn |
OCTOBER 2-3, 2014
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
WASHINGTON, D.C.
The first workshop focused on identifying CPS educational requirements. This workshop is focused on identifying solutions. Questions examined include:
- Would there be a CPS engineer? Would there be a major in CPS? If it’s run out of an ECE department, what would it look like? If it was run out of a CS department, what would it look like? Should it not be run out of a single department? Should it be run out of more complicated, coordinated multidisciplinary departments?
- Should it just be the four-year electives, so it’s kind of a concentration rather than a whole major?
- What happens in an aerospace department or a mechanical or civil engineering or chemical?
- What should we be doing in community colleges, if anything, or high schools or K-12?
October 2, 2014
9:00 a.m. | Introduction and Welcome Jack Stankovic, University of Virginia, Co-Chair Jim Sturges, Lockheed Martin (retired), Co-Chair |
9:30 | Current and Anticipated Workforce Needs Presenter: Scott Hareland, Medtronics |
10:00 | Break |
10:00 |
Innovative Trends in Engineering Education
Presenter: Norman Fortenberry, American Society for Engineering Education |
11:00 |
Incorporating CPS Knowledge into Existing Engineering Curricula Moderator: George Pappas —Civil Engineering Presenter: Douglas Adams, Chair, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Vanderbilt University —AerospacePresenter: Jonathan How, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
12:00 p.m. |
Lunch Breakout Sessions
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2:00 |
Teaching Courses for CPS Presenter: André DeHon, University of Pennsylvania
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2:15 |
Including CPS Core Knowledge into General Engineering Education
Presenter: Shankar Sastry, University of California, Berkeley [remotely] |
3:15 |
CPS Outside/Beyond 4-year Degree Programs Moderator: Bill Milam —Introducing CPS in High School Presenter: Harry Cheng, University of California, Davis —Online Education/MOOCSPresenter: Magnus Egerstedt, Georgia Tech |
4:30 |
Critical Knowledge: Lessons from Teaching a Course and Writing a Textbook
Presenter: Edward Lee, University of California Berkeley [remotely] |
5:30 | Reception |
October 3, 2014
8:30 a.m. |
Teaching for CPS (continued) Moderator: Manuela Veloso Panelists: Trek Abdelzaher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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9:15 |
Building Current and Future Faculty Moderator: Paulo Tabuada Panelists: Jerry Lynch, University of Michigan
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10:15 | Break |
10:30 | Breakout Group Report Back |
11:00 |
Industry Exposure, Research Projects, and Moderator: Chuck Farrar Project-Based Learning Panelists: Dimitri Mavris, Georgia Institute of Technology |
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12:30 p.m. | Wrap Up Discussion Jack Stankovic, University of Virginia, Co-Chair Jim Sturges, Lockheed Martin (retired), Co-Chair |