A Multi-, Inter-, and Trans-Disciplinary Approach to Teaching Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

The field of wireless sensor networks has drastically advanced over the past several years, and is penetrating into all aspects of engineering, medicine, and management in particular, and the society as a whole. Consequently, a need has arisen to create a course which is accessible to students of engineering, medicine, and management, and other majors, as well. This paper presents one such effort, to create a course which is, in its three-credit version, suitable 14 electrical and computer engineering graduate students, in its two-credit version suitable also for graduate students of management and business administration, and in its one-credit version suitable for graduate students of medicine. The results from the experiment course show that levels of semantization, synergy, and symbiosis are significantly increased. Multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary, and trans-disciplinary effort helps create new scientific values, and students enjoy trans-disciplinarity.