ILERT - International Learning Environment for Real-Time Software-Intensive Control Systems

Due to the heavily software-centric nature of modern reactive and time-critical systems, there is an increasing demand for efficient development of high quality Real-Time Software-Intensive Control systems (RSIC). The study discussed in this paper is focused on the creation of international curriculum framework centred on RSIC - this important aspect of computer-system-control-software engineering education. The study explores the mechanism for involving students from multilingual, geographically separated institutions in a coordinated educational experience. It exposes them to the problems, methods, solution techniques, infrastructure, technologies, regulatory issues, and tools in the domain of dependable real-time, safety-critical, software-intensive control systems. The ultimate objective is the creation of a model RSIC curriculum, which can be used by engineering schools both in the USA and the EU.