Real-Time System Course in Undergraduate CS/CE Programs

narrocha Abstract— Many people who need to write technical documents do not know that there exist standards for writing letter symbols. When a lecturer or professor gives a lesson, the symbols used are transmitted to the students so they learn which symbols must be used for each magnitude. But in many cases, the symbols employed by the Professor are not the standard ones for that magnitude. And in different subjects, different symbols are employed for the same magnitude, so students are confused. This database contains more than 400 letter symbols, units, and international standards related to nomenclature. It is used to correct nomenclature in the Departamento de Comunicaciones of the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia. The database is compressed in a self-extracting archive. It works on a PC with the Microsoft Access 2.0 program. Abstract— Interactions with industry hiring new software engineers from undergraduate computer science and engineering programs show, case after case, that universities do not pay enough attention to practical aspects of software development. Another well-known deficiency of the undergraduate programs is in the area of time-critical reactive program- ming. The presented paper describes a senior course in a computer science undergraduate program designed to address some of the above problems. The real-time course provides the students not only with the basic concepts of real-time programming, but also provides a vehicle for development of small class projects which address methods, tools, and the critical aspects of a modern software development life cycle. The experience with teaching the course may serve as a model for similar offerings in other computer science, computer engineering, and software engineering college programs. The paper describes lessons learned and future plans.