Switching from computer to microcomputer architecture education

Abstract

In the last decades, the technological and scientific evolution of the computing discipline has been widely affecting research in software engineering education, which nowadays advocates more enlightened and liberal ideas. This article reviews cross-disciplinary research on a computer architecture class in consideration of its switching to microcomputer architecture. The authors present their strategies towards a successful crossing of boundaries between engineering disciplines. This communication aims at providing a different aspect on professional courses that are, nowadays, addressed at the expense of traditional courses.

Stirring up Engineers’ Systems Intelligence: A Case Study of Life-Philosophical Pedagogy

“…In their role as problem solvers, they struggle with the wicked problems that require technical expertise and innovation. Logically, domain knowledge persists as the selfevident foundation of their professional expertise, embracing theoretical, practical, technical, strategic and conceptual capacity [2] that allows them to design physical solutions to identified needs [3]. The trends in society, the emerging changes in industrial operating environments, and the subsequently growing demands for wider competence bases, however, necessitate an updating of competences to facilitate contextual performance in organizations and in society at large [4].…”