Advanced Technical Education in the Age of Cyber Physical Systems

Technical education has to meet new challenges with the arrival of large-scale cyber physical systems. Since such systems are real-time critical, distributed, often safety-critical, and heterogeneous by nature, their design and their control in everyday use creates challenges which must be mastered by qualified engineers. On the other hand, existing schemes of technical education by far follow traditional patterns of analog and digital hardware designers with at least some notion of timing on one side, and software designers, deeply embedded in their cyber space with little relation to real time challenges, on the other hand. This paper shows some recent efforts in international higher education with a strong devotion to close existing gaps.