CS460
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Foundations of Cyber-Physical Systems
Course (UG/PG)
Undergraduate
Offering Unit/Department
Course Description
Cyber-Physical Systems infuse sensing, computing, networking, and control capabilities into physical objects, breathing into them new life, new purpose, and new meaning. They are present in diverse application domains: social services, food, healthcare, transportation, environmental sustainability, and more. Cyber-Physical Systems empower global communities to create meaningful impact by addressing societal challenges, in areas such as social fabric, quality of life, and sustainability.
In this foundational course, we embark on an adventure; sometimes challenging, always exciting. We learn vital theories, acquire skills, and work with tools for Cyber-Physical Systems. We discover their essential elements. We explore ways to unite the cyber and physical realms. We unleash our creative energies, our youthful idealism, and our capacity to dream, by creating visionary technology to conquer a real-world societal challenge.
The adventure reaches its peak at the project showcase, where we witness the work of human hands come to fruition, leaving us inspired to reflect deeply and broadly about how we, as global citizens, can harness the power of Cyber-Physical Systems as a potent force in the service of humanity.
In this foundational course, we embark on an adventure; sometimes challenging, always exciting. We learn vital theories, acquire skills, and work with tools for Cyber-Physical Systems. We discover their essential elements. We explore ways to unite the cyber and physical realms. We unleash our creative energies, our youthful idealism, and our capacity to dream, by creating visionary technology to conquer a real-world societal challenge.
The adventure reaches its peak at the project showcase, where we witness the work of human hands come to fruition, leaving us inspired to reflect deeply and broadly about how we, as global citizens, can harness the power of Cyber-Physical Systems as a potent force in the service of humanity.
Course Learning Outcomes
- Business Innovation: Identify and evaluate digitisation and innovative business opportunities provided by new advancements in information and communication technology to establish new services or businesses to bridge the physical and digital worlds
- Design Thinking Practice: manage design thinking methodologies and processes to solve specific challenges for the organisation, and guide stakeholders through the phases of inspiration, empathy, ideation and implementation
- Embedded Systems Integration: implement control systems to perform predefined tasks and also real-time monitoring for the real world
- Embedded Systems Interface Design: design and set up interfaces and interconnections from or among sensors, through a network, to a main location, to enable transmission of information
- Embedded Systems Programming: program an embedded system using permitted programming interfaces provided by the system to support creation of devices that do not operate on traditional operating systems
- Systems Design: Design systems to meet specified business and user requirements that are compatible with established system architectures, as well as organisational and performance standards
Discipline-Specific Competencies
Business Innovation, Embedded Systems Interface Design, Systems Design, Embedded Systems Programming
SMU Graduate Learning Outcomes
Disciplinary Knowledge, Multidisciplinary Knowledge, Interdisciplinary Knowledge, Critical thinking & problem solving, Communication, Intercultural understanding and sensitivity, Understanding of global and Asian perspectives, Ethics and social responsibility
Grading Basis
GRD - Graded
Course Units
1