Emulation Tool Diversity for Future Engineering Education

Abstract

Engineering academia makes use of emulation and simulation i.e software tools. These software tools should evolve to meet the new demands of provisioning of quality engineering education. This requires additional research consideration and is addressed in the presented research. The research proposes the evolution of simulation and emulation tools and describes a model wherein the intelligence is integrated in future emulation and simulation tools used in engineering education and research. The incorporation of intelligence in this case leads to a notion of emulation and simulation tool diversity. In this case, the diversity implies the choice of simulation and emulation tool that meets the learning preferences of an individual. In addition, the research presents a framework wherein the proposed solution executes its function within the environment of a higher education institution. This is done for the cases of a constrained and non-constrained engineering faculty in a higher education institution.