Innovative mobile tool for engineering embedded design and security educations

In the current electronic industry, embedded systems have become essential components in most electronic devices. The fast growth mobile devices have been used in every sector and brought wide applications in many aspects of our society. These devices involve in internet connections, wireless communications and even cloud computing, which increases the necessity of both hardware and software securities. Therefore there is an urgent need of efficient education in EE, CE and CS in embedded systems, especially in hardware and software co-design with the concepts of modern security methods. In this paper, we present a work-in-progress development of an effective learning tool which benefits from active learning concepts and modern mobile technologies. The contributions of this tool on promoting engineering students´ learning of embedded system designs and security are also investigated.