歷屆英特爾杯嵌入式系統(tǒng)專題邀請賽(2002-2006)參賽心得

英特爾杯大學(xué)生嵌入式專題邀請賽的發(fā)起于2002年，目的在于組織國內(nèi)優(yōu)秀高校的精英學(xué)生參賽，通過競賽鍛煉學(xué)生對新興技術(shù)的自我學(xué)習(xí)能力，培養(yǎng)學(xué)生的實(shí)踐動手能力與創(chuàng)新意識；通過競賽將更多前沿技術(shù)傳播給指導(dǎo)教師，從而促進(jìn)國內(nèi)高校的電子類課程的教學(xué)改革。自2002年試點(diǎn)以來，英特爾杯大學(xué)生嵌入式專題邀請賽已經(jīng)成功舉辦了三屆，邀請范圍逐步由國內(nèi)擴(kuò)大到港澳、東南亞、以及美國等地，規(guī)模維持在160支參賽隊(duì)。今年競賽開賽前，組委會邀請到部分參加過前幾屆競賽的參賽學(xué)生與指導(dǎo)教師，暢談了參加競賽的心得體會，以及競賽對他們今后發(fā)展的影響。

2002年9月，作為第一批被邀請的學(xué)校，北京大學(xué)派兩個代表隊(duì)參加了第一屆嵌入式系統(tǒng)專題競賽，并取得了非常好的成績。在參加這次競賽之前，我們對嵌入式系統(tǒng)并不十分了解，做相關(guān)科研的老師也很少，正是這次競賽給了學(xué)生們學(xué)習(xí)新知識的機(jī)會，也給我們的教學(xué)提供了新鮮的血液。由于具有參加第一屆《嵌入式系統(tǒng)專題競賽》的經(jīng)驗(yàn)，2003年，我們在北京大學(xué)信息科學(xué)技術(shù)學(xué)院正式開設(shè)出適合本科生教學(xué)的嵌入式課程。

第一屆競賽相對后面幾屆更加具有難度，因?yàn)閰①愅瑢W(xué)沒有任何經(jīng)驗(yàn)可以借鑒，完全靠著他們的探索和鉆研才最終達(dá)到目標(biāo)。而他們探索的過程和成功經(jīng)驗(yàn)就為《嵌入式系統(tǒng)實(shí)驗(yàn)》課程提供了最原始的素材。這些素材最后都變成了一個個實(shí)驗(yàn)，融入到了課程之中。其他幾屆競賽的同學(xué)們也都把他們的競賽經(jīng)驗(yàn)留給了他們的師弟師妹們，他們最終的作品也成為了很好的演示實(shí)驗(yàn)，讓選課的同學(xué)對嵌入式系統(tǒng)可以做的事情有了最感性的認(rèn)識。

—北京大學(xué)信息科學(xué)技術(shù)學(xué)院 楊延軍   2002年競賽英特爾杯獲獎隊(duì)指導(dǎo)教師
　　
 From the educator and researcher point of view, I benefit from and think highly of NUEDC for the following reasons:
 1. It gives me an opportunity to network with my colleagues in China who are working in the embedded system area. Thanks for your excellent organization, the technical committee of NUEDC has been well represented by the professors and professionals from major universities and Intel. I believe other colleagues also benefit from this platform to exchange the state-of-the-art information.
 2. It gives me an opportunity to recruit PhD students. Students who attend NUEDC are potentially very good candidates for PhD research. One of my current PhD students Liu Hanyu was recruited from NUEDC 2006. He was one of the first prize winners that year. His PhD progress so far is very good, which is also benefited from his NUEDC experience I believe.
 3. It gives me an opportunity to have interactions with industry friends. Intel and other local Chinese companies have greatly sponsored and supported NUEDC competitions.

 —新加坡國立大學(xué) 哈亞軍 2004年首批境外參賽隊(duì)指導(dǎo)教師
　　
在比賽期間我學(xué)到了很多東西，為我以后的學(xué)習(xí)和工作打下了堅(jiān)實(shí)的基礎(chǔ)。這不僅僅是學(xué)習(xí)了軟硬件技術(shù)，而是在競賽過程中，大家一起集思廣益，發(fā)揮創(chuàng)造性思維，攻克了一個個難題，培養(yǎng)了良好的團(tuán)隊(duì)合作精神和學(xué)習(xí)了解決復(fù)雜問題的方法，這些平時課堂上很難學(xué)到的東西使我即使在現(xiàn)在進(jìn)入Intel公司之后的工作中也受益匪淺。

—英特爾公司 潘偉斌  2002年競賽參賽學(xué)生
　　
大賽采用開放式形式，使我們每一個隊(duì)員有很大的自由度來放開思路，發(fā)揮創(chuàng)意，對于嵌入式系統(tǒng)的設(shè)計(jì)來說是尤為重要的，因?yàn)楹艽蟪潭壬?，嵌入式系統(tǒng)的設(shè)計(jì)正式通過不斷的創(chuàng)新，利用有限的硬軟件平臺，擴(kuò)展出眾多不同的系統(tǒng)功能，結(jié)合各種系統(tǒng)功能進(jìn)而實(shí)現(xiàn)與眾不同的嵌入式應(yīng)用。針對開放式命題難以評判的問題，大賽組織十分權(quán)威的專家組，組成豐富、不僅有各個高校的知名教授專家，也有來自企業(yè)界的軟硬件工程師，這樣不僅對于作品本身的技術(shù)細(xì)節(jié)，而且對于作品的創(chuàng)意和應(yīng)用前景，專家們都能給出非常中肯的評價。這點(diǎn)讓我們深感欣慰。公正公平的評判同時我們也從專家的意見和建議中收獲良多，不僅是對我們參賽過程中付出的努力的一種肯定，同時從這些建議中收獲的是一種寶貴的人生體驗(yàn)，很大程度上其價值甚于比賽結(jié)果本身。

—上海交通大學(xué) 張易知 2006年競賽參賽學(xué)生
　　
  During the contest, students gained the chance to develop a real project, rather than just focusing on the theories in class. Real project development was an invaluable experience for undergraduate students, which was rather different from that of the previous course projects I did. We needed to convince others that it was a good product which could be introduced to the market. As a result, we learnt how to think from the perspective of users, but not just following the specification given by professors and tutors. Throughout the whole project, from conceptual design to drafting of project presentation slides, we kept asking ourselves:” why would a user want to use this product?” Whether we have been successful in answering this question or not, I believe we had tried our best and learnt a lot.
 Through working on the project as a group, students learnt more about teamwork and project management in tight time constraints. As it was a team project, we had the chance to cooperate with other teammates, including how to come to a compromise whenever we had different opinions inside our group, which is an important skill no matter we planned to continue our pursuit in academic career or the industry.

 —香港中文大學(xué) 傅家權(quán) 2006年競賽英特爾杯獲獎隊(duì)參賽學(xué)生