Teaching undergraduate computer science and engineering students techniques for the design and analysis of real-time applications

Michigan State University has begun a project to incorporate embedded systems education across several courses. This paper provides an overview of the project and details specific efforts to enhance one of the courses, operating systems, in order to include special instruction of real-time computing. The instruction material developed is modularized such that its components detailing scheduling issues and laboratory project ideas and infrastructure will be available for other courses, such as the software engineering and the computer engineering project courses.