Duration: 35:47

1,722 views

11

System Engineering is taught, both in industry and academia. The availability of open source tools creates a lot of interest for using those tools in teaching. But to date, initiatives have not been coordinated. In this talk, we introduce our initiative for creating publicly licensed teaching materials that use Eclipse-based open source tools for the included case study.

Exposing students to tools during their studies will encourage them to recommend them to their future employers, something that companies like Microsoft, Apple or Adobe have been knowing for a long time. This effect can also be seen through the success of Eclipse as a Java IDE in both academia and industry.

There is a tremendous interest in using Eclipse in Systems Engineering, as can be seen from projects like PolarSys, which are backed by organizations like Airbus or Ericsson. Our initiative strives to do to Systems Engineering, what Eclipse has already achieved in Java Development.

The Theory of Systems Engineering is already firmly established in Academia. Therefore, our intitiative specifically excludes the teaching of Theory, and focuses on application, assuming that the students already akquired the theoretical knowledge (or are learning it in parallel).

In this initiative, we will create teaching materials that focus on a case study. As of this writing, the final decision has not yet been made, it will likely be a Coffee Maker (classic), Isolette (safety-critical example from the FAA) or an autonomous Rover (as suggested by Gaël Blondelle for the PolarSys project).

The Case study will start with requirements (using Eclipse ProR), continue with modeling (Papyrus) and code generation (Acceleo). It will cover testing on the unit (Junit), functional (TBD) and acceptance level (manual). For traceabilitiy, ReqCycle will be employed.

By the time the talk will take place, we will have selected and be able to show actual artifacts. This initiative is driven by a consortium consisting of academia (e.g. University of Michigan), research organizations (e.g. REArch Int.), Traininers (e.g. Herrmann & Ehrlich) and, of course, Eclipse committers (e.g. Formal Mind).