He recently retired from IBM after a 31-year career. He held a diverse set of leadership positions across product development (both hardware and software), supply chain and manufacturing, sales operations, research, corporate strategy, leading large teams, and talent development. Nick has led and contributed to many critical projects including saving the mainframe business, taking AIX/Power to the #1 UNIX position, establishing Linux servers in the enterprise market, and was on the team that built the first Bladed architecture for the general purpose x86 market. More recently, Stevens' faculty have begun to study the technical competencies specifically required for the engineering of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and the Internet of Things (IOT). Our preliminary result is this curriculum can provide most of the additional technical competencies required to be an effective software engineer and systems architect for complex CPS and IOT systems and well as the vital interdisciplinary experiences. This paper describes the program and curriculum, posits additional competencies required for effective CPS/IOT software engineering, and concludes that the new SWE program is a good match for a CPS/IOT software engineering program.

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He recently retired from IBM after a 31-year career. He held a diverse set of leadership positions across product development (both hardware and software), supply chain and manufacturing, sales operations, research, corporate strategy, leading large teams, and talent development. Nick has led and contributed to many critical projects including saving the mainframe business, taking AIX/Power to the #1 UNIX position, establishing Linux servers in the enterprise market, and was on the team that built the first Bladed architecture for the general purpose x86 market.