Design of a Blended e-Learning Curriculum for Embedded System Engineering

Embedded systems are applied in various products and the demand for them is very high; however, there is a very serious shortage of embedded system engineers in Japan. For this reason, the promotion of embedded system engineering education is needed. We have developed an e-learning system for embedded system engineering education and designed a curriculum based on this e-learning system. This educational system has some effective materials for promoting self-learning at home, including a remote practice system and an online hardware description language (HDL) design check system. We conducted some training courses using this educational system and evaluated the results.