Embedded systems teaching approaches & challenges

This paper discusses the challenges of teaching and design of Embedded System course. A survey on different approaches of teaching embedded systems design course was presented. The embedded system design class/course is often the course in which students are exposed to fairly complex design problems. In this study, the authors explained the importance of teaching embedded systems courses in a way that can shrink the gap between academically taught skills and the skills sought after by the industry. The literature on embedded systems design was found to be diverse, including relatively scarce research data and much larger amount of evaluation literature. Many studies were found but only few of them were discussed in this paper because of lack of methodological rigour in the research and poorly developed outcome measures.