{"id":138819,"date":"2023-04-13T15:32:26","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T19:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/?p=138819"},"modified":"2023-08-18T11:56:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T15:56:07","slug":"hands-on-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/2023\/04\/13\/hands-on-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Hands-On Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the course Smart and Connected Systems, taught by Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/profile\/thomas-little\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thomas Little<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/academics\/departments-and-divisions\/electrical-and-computer-engineering\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ECE<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/academics\/departments-and-divisions\/systems-engineering\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SE<\/a>), students get the chance to learn topics in cyber-physical and IoT systems and then put those concepts into practice by developing and debugging small-scale connected microcontroller systems. Above, Yangyang Zhang (ENG\u201924) and Kai Imery (ENG\u201924) work on an object-detecting autonomous vehicle they co-designed. For the assignment, Zhang, Imery and two teammates had to design the vehicle to not only run, but also meet specific parameters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>BU Today <\/em><\/a>photographer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/author\/cydney-scott\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cydney Scott<\/a> visited Little&#8217;s class and captured this moment for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/close-ups\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Close-Up,&#8221;<\/a> a series of snapshots from around campus.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A snapshot from Smart and Connected Systems, the course where students put cyber-physical and IoT concepts into practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2662,"featured_media":138828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[236,975,907,1058,1],"tags":[692],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138819"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138842,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138819\/revisions\/138842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}