Applying Interdisciplinarity and Agile Methods in the Development of a Smart Grids System

Author

Paiva Ramos, Marcelo ; Ravanhani Matuck, Gustavo ; Fernandes Matrigrani, Ciro ; Mirachi, Samoel ; Segeti, Eliezer ; Leite, Marcela ; Da Cunha, Adilson Marques ; Vieira Dias, Luiz Alberto

Author_Institution

Comput. & Electron. Eng. Grad. Program, Brazilian Aeronaut. Inst. of Technol., Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil

fYear

2013

fDate

15-17 April 2013

Firstpage

103

Lastpage

110

Abstract

This paper describes an experiment of integrating undergraduate and graduate courses at the Brazilian Aeronautics Institute of Technology, within the Computer Engineering Undergraduate Program and the Electronic and Computing Engineering Graduate Program, during the 2nd semester of 2011. A Smart Grids System case study was used as a Problem Based Learning strategy together with agile best practices within a project development. This experiment has involved four courses: Embedded Systems (undergraduate), Embedded and Real-Time Systems, Software Quality, Reliability, and Safety, and Advanced Topics in Software Testing. During this experiment, the students of all these courses had to interact and collaborate in order to produce a prototype of a Smart Grids System, simulating a real project development.

Keywords

continuing education; educational courses; engineering education; further education; smart power grids; unsupervised learning; Brazilian Aeronautics Institute of Technology; Computer Engineering Undergraduate Program; Electronic and Computing Engineering Graduate Program; agile method; interdisciplinarity method; problem based learning strategy; smart grids system; undergraduate course; Real-time systems; Safety; Smart grids; Software quality; Software reliability; Software testing; Agile Methods; Interdisciplinarity; Problem Based Learning; Smart Grids Systems; Software Engineering Integration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology: New Generations (ITNG), 2013 Tenth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-4967-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITNG.2013.22

Filename

6614296