Design of a Cyber-Physical System using STEM: Chicken Egg Incubator

In this paper, STEM approach to study, design and implement chicken egg incubator as a cyber-physical system is demonstrated. In science viewpoint (S), bringing a life to earth can provide magnificent feeling that inspires students to learn more about life sciences. In views of technology (T), the students learn how to design and use micro-controllers, sensors and other components. Specifically the students also develop programming skills in controlling optimal ventilation, temperature and relative humidity for incubators in order to hatch chicken eggs. In Engineering and Mathematically (E&M), Kalman filter is adopted to estimate the states from a series of noisy measurements. According to our experiment, based on the survey questionnaire, the learning outcomes are satisfied.