Cyber-Physical Systems Focus

A recent report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine emphasizes that the future cyber-physical systems (CPS) workforce is likely to include a combination of engineers trained in foundational fields (such as electrical and computing engineering, mechanical engineering, systems engineering, and computer science); engineers trained in specific applied engineering fields (such as aerospace and civil engineering); and CPS engineers, who focus on the knowledge and skills spanning cyber technology and physical systems that operate in the physical world. The future CPS workforce needs to understand the principles that define the integration of physical and cyber aspects in areas such as communication and networking, real-time operation, distributed and embedded systems, physical properties of hardware and the environment, and human interaction. The Academic Program of the IASE addresses this need with training programs that cut across the areas of systems engineering, modeling, control, communications and networking.