Competence model for embedded micro-and nanosystems

In this paper, we describe the results of an expert survey conducted within the project “Competence development with embedded micro- and nanosystems”. This survey was designed in order to refine our previously derived normative competence structure model for developers of embedded micro-and nanosystems towards an empirically refined competence structure model. Today the size of structural parts of nanosystems has scaled down to as few as a couple of molecules. This results in a lot of challenges regarding permanent and transient faults. Therefore bottom-up development techniques for nanostructured systems are now included into our competence model to prepare future developers to the specific challenges of designing at the nano scale. The evaluation of the content validity of the empirically refined competence structure model was accomplished by the presented expert rating.