Resources for using lego mindstorms
Proceedings of the seventh annual consortium for computing in small colleges central plains conference on The journal of computing in small colleges
A road map for teaching introductory programming using LEGO© mindstorms robots
Working group reports from ITiCSE on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
Increasing computer science participation in the FIRST robotics competition with robot simulation
Proceedings of the 47th Annual Southeast Regional Conference
Cyber-physical systems: the next computing revolution
Proceedings of the 47th Design Automation Conference
Modules in community: injecting more parallelism into computer science curricula
Proceedings of the 42nd ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
Implementing IT0/CS0 with scratch, app inventor forandroid, and lego mindstorms
Proceedings of the 2011 conference on Information technology education
Computer science curriculum 2013: reviewing the strawman report from the ACM/IEEE-CS task force
Proceedings of the 43rd ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education
Introducing students grades 6-12 to expressive robotics
HRI '12 Proceedings of the seventh annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-Robot Interaction
Teaching cyber-physical systems to computer scientists via modeling and verification
Proceeding of the 44th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
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Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) is an emerging field of study that offers a wealth of applications in many domains of life and has the potential to change the way humans interact with and control the surrounding environment and physical processes. There is a need to prepare computer science students to join the innovation and development of CPSs and their applications. We proposed a cross-curricular enhancement framework that infuses CPS concepts into a few computer science courses from the freshman to the senior years, allowing a continuous exposure of CPS concepts with a gradually increased complexity and scale. In this paper, we introduce a sequence of course modules designed for an introductory computer science course that expose students to mathematical modeling, algorithmic thinking, and their interactions. The course modules leverage affordable robotic systems, require no students' preparation in programming, and are rich in mathematical modeling. An initial implementation of the course modules enforces the observation that potential CPS applications trigger excitement among students and increase their appreciation of mathematical modeling and its role in solving computing problems.