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Teaching Embedded Systems by Constructing an Escape Room

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Benjamin Völker,

Sebastian Böttcher,

Philipp M. SchollAuthors Info & Claims

SIGCSE '21: Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Pages 1103 - 1109

https://doi.org/10.1145/3408877.3432485

Published: 05 March 2021 Publication History

Abstract

Embedded systems are the foundation of many of today's consumer products and industrial applications - and they are increasingly connected. To teach this topic we created a course with the overarching goal of designing and constructing an automated escape room. This provided motivation and opportunity for students to learn the engineering and soft skills required for building networked embedded systems. The game was open for faculty members and friends of the students after the course concluded. By dividing the building process into multiple tasks, such as individual puzzles, the presented concept encourages inter- and intra-group work, including conceptualizing, designing and developing reliable, connected embedded systems. In this paper we first present the motivation, context, and pedagogical approach of the course, then describe the course structure and conclude with experiences from constructing an escape room with multiple groups of students.

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Prud'homme-Généreux A(2023)Creating Online Educational Escape Rooms for Undergraduate Learners in the Natural SciencesLearning With Escape Rooms in Higher Education Online Environments10.4018/978-1-6684-6081-8.ch011(1-25)Online publication date: 10-Feb-2023
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