Towards Attractive STEM Education by Using Open Source Hardware and Software

Abstract

textbfSTEM education is hard to be studied, also it is considered as not attractive and boring. At the same time it is very important to create capable engineers to keep on the progress in the technologies. The paper describes the contents of an introductory course in embedded systems. It is intended to provoke the students' curiosity and to convince them in the benefits of the engineering career. The basics of the engineering computing along with the application of the most often used electronic components and the control ofscaled real devices are demonstrated with appropriate code examples.