Developing Undergraduate Students' Multi-Engineering Skills through Projects on Embedded System

The transformation from the industrial-based economy to knowledge based economy due to the rapid technological development over the late 20th Century has not only changed our lifestyles, but also our thinking. In education, we are witnessing the shift from teacher-centred education to student-centred education. In industry, we are experiencing the change to a higher demand in employee requirements. The modern engineers are expected to have not only the specialized knowledge, but also other technical knowledge as well as personal skills such as teamwork and leadership. However, it remained a big doubt as to how far has our university curriculum cope with this rapid change in our society to produce engineers that meet this requirement. Most courses in an university undergraduate curriculum were still designed based on training students in a specific, and often specialized, skill or knowledge. Training students to integrate these individual skills is not often available. In the last two years, the author introduced project on embedded system to his students in one of the courses taught. The success of the student project requires the appropriate application of skills and knowledge that the students learned from other units in the previous years of their undergraduate engineering program. Through this project, students had an opportunity to develop multi engineering skills and personal skills in a single course.