IoT Will Fire up the Next Generation of Engineers Says ARM and UCL
January 21 2015 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
ARM is partnering with UCL (University College London) to launch
a new education kit aimed at developing students’ Internet of
Things (IoT) technical skills. The aim is to encourage more
graduates to stay in Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths
(STEM) related professions as statistics suggest half leave the
sector to pursue careers in unrelated areas.
The ARM® IoT Education Kit teaches students how to use the ARM
mbed™ IoT Device Platform, create smartphone apps and control end
devices such as a mini-robot or a wearable health device. It will
be rolled out from September by UCL’s Department of Electronic and
Electrical Engineering in a week-long IoT module for full-time MSc
and Continuing Professional Development students.
The course is designed to get students interested in starting
their own IoT business or join companies such as ARM that are
delivering technologies enabling the IoT to grow. It will also help
to address concerns that many students taking engineering or
technology at university are not pursuing related careers. The
latest research carried out by UCL with Oxford Policy and Research
in 2012 analyzed the career paths of students graduating from
STEM-based courses. The study showed:
- Engineering courses: 36 percent of
males and 51 percent of females took up non-STEM careers
- Technology: 44 percent of males and 53
percent of females took up non-STEM careers
- Computer Sciences: 64 percent of males
and 66 percent of females took up non-STEM careers
“Students with strong science and mathematical skills are in
demand and we need to make sure they stay in engineering,” said
Mike Muller, chief technology officer, ARM. “The growth of the IoT
gives us a great opportunity to prove to students why our
profession is more exciting and sustainable than others. New
technologies make it far easier to start a business and and there’s
a huge appetite for highly motivated young people to help companies
such as ARM deliver innovation that will shape the world’s
future.”
The kit includes ARM mbed-enabled hardware boards from Nordic
Semiconductor, software licenses from ARM and a complete set of
teaching materials. UCL is also developing a second module for
engineering undergraduates that would start in 2016.
“Many students are not following through to an engineering
career and that is a real risk to our long term success as a nation
of innovators,” said professor Izzat Darwazeh, head of
communications and information systems at UCL Engineering Sciences.
“Most students take engineering because they are driven to
understand how the world works, from taking radios apart when they
were children, to creating apps in high school. Engineering is
about creative problem-solving and it’s exactly what we hope to
instil in them again with the IoT Kit, which provides the tools and
the knowledge to create devices and systems that could one day
become best-sellers or even change our world.”
Earlier this month EngineeringUK called for more action to train
and retain engineers, predicting a potential economic boost to the
British economy of £27bn per year from 2022 if demand for new
engineering jobs was filled. See their report at
http://www.engineeringuk.com/View/?con_id=490.
The ARM IoT Education kit was unveiled earlier today at the UCL
Institute of Making in Central London. The Institute is a creative
workshop which is open and free to everyone at the university and
has more than 3000 student and staff users.
According to the Institute’s Director, Professor Mark Miadownik,
a well-known BBC broadcaster and winner of the 2014 Royal Society
Winton Prize for Science Books: “Engineering is fun, creative and
rewarding and the potential for IoT to attract more people into
engineering is huge. This new ARM IoT kit will help aid the skills
shortage in engineering by encouraging students to dream up new,
practical solutions that will change the world for the better.”
The education kit is available immediately. More information can
be found on the ARM University Program website.
Notes to Editors
About ARM
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intelligence in applications ranging from sensors to servers,
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About UCL Electronic and Electrical Engineering
The UCL Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering was
the first department of Electrical Engineering to be established in
England, founded in 1885, and now comprises some 200 researchers
working on topics in communications and information systems,
electronic materials and devices, optical networks, photonics and
sensors, systems and circuits, with turnover exceeding £11 million.
It was recently rated in the top 5 departments in the UK in its
subject area in the UK Government's Research Excellence Framework
(REF) 2014. In 2009, alumnus Sir Charles K. Kao received the Nobel
Prize for Physics for his invention of low loss optical fibres and
their application to global communication systems.
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