Building Cyber-Physical Systems

This course has not been adjusted for remote participation in Semester. Students must attend on-campus activities to complete the course. This is an annual course which enables students to analyze and create cyber-physical systems both individually and in diverse teams under academic supervision. This course will create disciplinary experts who have a hands-on understanding of new and emerging technological constellations and their separate components. Participants will complete a range of lab-based projects to develop a technical understanding of systems as designed objects which embody values. They will also gain technical skills in designing, building and understanding cybernetic systems, and understanding Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) from the ‘inside’, with an emphasis on making and building. This complements the approach in CECS6001 and CECS6002, which challenge participants to consider cybernetic systems from the ‘outside’ via interrogating case studies. Participants will not emerge from the course as qualified programmers or computer scientists. Instead, through learning-by-doing, participants will gain sufficient knowledge and practice to drive meaningful and accurate conversations about cybernetic systems and shape design decisions as a part of a multidisciplinary team developing new and emerging technologies.