Advances in Software and Hardware Engineering towards a Sustainable Technology Education

Dear Colleagues,

To cross global technology gaps and promote sustainable technology education, well-developed courses of software and/or hardware in technology education have increased rapidly during recent decades. Large numbers of software and/or hardware courses with intermittent characteristics have been equipped on both the latest generation and demand sides, bringing significant challenges to the optimal planning, operation, control, and revision of sustainable technology education. To deal with the uncertainties in sustainable technology education, instructors and even decision-makers need to utilize various flexible software and hardware resources, such as adjustable software APIs, reusable requirements-on-demand code generators, flexible hardware components, etc.

The significant challenges of sustainable technology education optimization are the uncertainties and complexities in both software and hardware parts. Under the diverse education environments, technology education needs to consider intermittent renewable technology trends and even revolutions as well as account for volatile technology prices. Therefore, it is a must for instructors, even the government, to provide sustainable and up-to-date software and hardware teaching materials. As a result, it is necessary to investigate efficient optimization techniques for sustainable technology education considering parameter uncertainties and system properties to maximize the educational benefits, save on existing educational investment and convert it into other necessary education programs, and even ignore the consideration of updating to the latest version.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following: 

• Advanced sustainable technology education;
• Advanced sustainable information education;
• Advanced sustainable information technology education;
• Advanced sustainable hardware design education;
• Advanced sustainable software/hardware co-design education;
• Advanced sustainable software education;
• Advanced sustainable software engineering education;
• Advanced sustainable requirements analysis education;
• Advanced sustainable software design education;
• Advanced sustainable software testing education;
• Advanced sustainable software maintenance education;
• Adjustable and reusable application programming interfaces;
• Adjustable and reusable requirements-on-demand code generators;
• Adjustable and reusable software and/or hardware components;
• Adjustable and reusable software-assisted tools.

I look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Po-Hsun Cheng
Guest Editor

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Prof. Dr. Po-Hsun Cheng
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Electronics is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

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