Abstract
It is a serious problem that the number of engineers engaged in the work of embedded systems is not sufficient, and therefore it is quite worthwhile for colleges of technology to be involved in a trial to increase the number of such engineers. The conventional framework of departments in the tertiary education system does not seem to function well for that purpose, as embedded systems development is a complex field with a mixture of various fields of study. However, still under the conventional framework of departments, Tokyo National College of Technology has been promoting an educational project, which aims at the development of engineers with not only basic scholastic ability but also the skills required for embedded system development. This project also aims at enhancing the proficiency of highly-motivated students. Students who have finished the course of this educational project are given the qualification of “Meister of Embedded Systems Development” as an incentive. One of the characteristics of this project is that students teach other students with support from the teaching staff. The students who give lectures will be given the qualification of “Student Engineering Educator” , which indicates that the students have educational ability as well as technical ability.
