Upsurge of IoT (Internet of Things) in engineering education: A case study

Knowledge of Internet of Things (IoT) provides an opportunity to explore career possibilities, to gain experience in aspects of engineering beyond the core curriculum and it brings interdisciplinary mode of learning in students. This paper discusses the emergence of IoT in the curriculum, towards building human resources that contribute to the current issues related to smart cities. IoT is the network of all kinds of things embedded with sensors, electronics, software and people connected to the Internet. Gartner predicts that 6.4 billion connected things would be in use by the end of the year 2018 also it would reach 20.8 billion by 2020. The emergence of the IoT has a transformative direct effect on our society and forces us to rethink how to educate the next generation engineers. As a result universities, institutes have taken up a step to include IoT as a course in the curriculum. The authors use the experience of teaching IoT as an elective course and propose a framework for inclusion of IoT as a course in the undergraduate curriculum. The outline of the course content, course outcomes, and delivery method are discussed in this paper. The graduate attributes 3: design/development of solutions, 5: modern tool usage, 6: Engineer and Society, 12: lifelong learning and 13: The program specific outcomes on domain knowledge of network engineering specified by National Board of Accreditation (NBA) are focused through this course.