Events
Scholarship Exchange Webinar
| Date: | Wednesday 19 November 2025 12:00 - 13:00  |
| Location: | Online |
Title: Transforming Embedded Systems Education at Scale: A Journey Through Challenges, Authentic Assessment, GenAI-CDIO framework, and Alignment with APHE4
Brief: In this talk, I will share my journey of transforming assessment in the Embedded Systems Design module, taught to over 300 students and soon expanding to 600. The challenge lay in balancing the breadth and depth of embedded systems, the scale of delivery, and the need to ensure industry-ready graduates. These challenges led to the creation of the GenAI–CDIO–AA–CBL framework, underpinned by constructivist, experiential, and situated learning theories. Students are taught through a "Lean Teaching Approach" that is focusing on core embedded concepts, and “Coding Day” workshops that build essential practical skills, while the open-ended coursework challenge is scaffolded by the framework to support independent, authentic learning. The talk will share insights from designing and implementing coursework that mirrors real engineering workflows, enhancing students’ knowledge, skills, and engagement. Its first implementation featured a two-wheeled self-balancing robot coursework, developed by 50 teams using off-the-shelf hardware, followed by an autonomous mobile robot (AMR) project and a hybrid qualitative–quantitative scoring model. Finally, I will share lessons leading to the AA–EC Framework design, aligning AA principles with AHEP4 competences toward scalable, accreditation-ready, GenAI-enabled education.
Bio: Jonathan Loo is a Senior Lecturer at the EECS. He has found his greatest passion in education, designing learning experiences that inspire and equip the next generation of engineers. His work focuses on authentic assessment, Generative AI–enabled learning, and engineering competence frameworks, advancing meaningful, industry-aligned approaches that prepare students to become capable, reflective, and future-ready engineers.