确保物理组件和计算机算法的无缝集成是网络物理系统领域的目标。将物理或人机交互与计算机技术相结合，网络物理系统可帮助构建旨在感知和与物理世界互动的“智能”网络系统。如果您使用智能手机发现了到达目的地或目的地的最快路线，与使用蓝牙技术的扬声器连接后，您就使用了网络物理系统。网络物理系统将物理和计算组件融为一体，为关键基础架构，改善的医疗保健以及将塑造未来的“智能”技术提供了基础。扩大水的可持续性，发现更有效的交通流量以及开发更好的安全性只是依赖于网络物理系统发展的一些领域。该领域被称为计算机领域的下一次革命，
In our Master of Science in Intelligent Systems Engineering (ISE) program, you will get technical expertise in computational engineering and artificial intelligence—the future of engineering and problem solving. This two-year program teaches you to use modern approaches and design principles to develop systems or devices that gather, interpret, and use data. You can work in the microscopic sensors that make our devices, homes, and vehicles “smart.” Go into advanced health diagnostics and tissue engineering. Master the massive systems that analyze the flood of data around us and drive decision making. This field focuses on systems that interact with the physical world. CPS encompasses the entire system—including high-level software—and it often emphasizes small or embedded devices. This includes robotics and sensor-rich environments such as smart homes, smart cars, and smart cities. In all of these cases, the intelligence comes from computing devices.