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Most introductory embedded systems offerings are upper-division courses. At Washington Univ. in St. Louis, embedded systems principles are introduced in a first-year course that is required for both computer scientists and computer engineers. This paper describes the motivation for the course, its content, the pedagogical techniques used, and lessons learned while developing and administering the course.
The authors would like to acknowledge the generous support of the Larsen family, which has been instrumental in the development of this course.
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Chamberlain, R.D., Cytron, R.K., Shook, D., Siever, B. (2019). Computers Interacting with the Physical World: A First-Year Course. In: Chamberlain, R., Taha, W., Törngren, M. (eds) Cyber Physical Systems. Model-Based Design. CyPhy WESE 2018 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11615. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23703-5_11
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