Modern tools of career development and motivation of students in Electrical Engineering Education

Rapid development of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) products and applications, encouraged by advances on the Internet of Things, generates high market demand on engineers with a multi-disciplinary background in mathematics, mechanics, computer science and electrical engineering. One of the challenges in the development of study programs and motivation of students is bridging the gap between industry needs and educational output, in terms of training the prospective researchers and engineers in the CPS field. Riga Technical University (RTU), in cooperation with the other members of Multi-Paradigm Modelling for Cyber-Physical Systems MPM4CPS Cost Action, applied their knowledge and methods to validate in practice the viability of the approach and the methods developed in the COST Action in order to support the introduction of industry-focused curricula at Higher Education Institutions in Partner' countries. In this research, we discuss experience of RTU in motivation of the students in the subject of the electrical engineering. We also discuss how cooperation between COST and ERASMUS project teams provides benefits to both projects, how the COST team efforts towards analysis of tendencies, industry needs and acquiring best education practice, have been applied by ERASMUS+ team in order to create industry-focused curricula in CPS for HEIs of Partner Countries.