Build your knowledge of universal connectivity

Our hardware professional students learn to design function-specific computer and communication systems, including mobile devices, the Internet of Things, networking equipment, industrial controllers, and military electronics.

Four hardware design tracks

• System Design
• FPGA Design
• Embedded Linux
• Embedded Software

Apply your knowledge of microprocessors, digital signal processors (DSPs) and microcontrollers and design and test hardware and software innovations of the future.

Embedded Systems certificate program objectives

• Design, debug, and synthesize digital logic for ASICs, PGAs, and IP cores
• Understand the basics of embedded hardware design
• Differentiate between types of jitter
• Decode IO technologies, including PCI Express, Ethernet and Fibre Channel
• Use analog and digital switch-mode power supplies

Technical aptitude

You need a degree in a technical field or equivalent knowledge acquired through training and experience in system design and development.

We recommended you have experience in C programming.

Please review course descriptions

Make sure you have taken necessary prerequisites or meet the requirements through job experience or previous education before registering for a course.

For the certificate program, please begin with one of the five core* courses. After the core requirement is met, courses may be taken in any order provided the prerequisites are met.

These are the 4 tracks of study:

• System Design
• FPGA Design
• Embedded Linux
• Embedded Software

Substitutions

You may take one elective outside the certificate curriculum, if you receive prior approval from the Academic Services Department.

Shared credits

Some Engineering and Technology courses may be listed in more than one program. However, only one course may be shared between two E&T certificate programs unless otherwise noted.

To receive your certificate

Upon completion of the course sequence you may request your Embedded Systems Certificate Completion Review.

Earn credit toward an M.S. in Engineering

We have a transfer agreement with the University of Wisconsin–Platteville that assists graduates of our Embedded Systems and Software Engineering and Quality certificate programs pursue an online Master of Science degree in Engineering. Applicants to this master’s program must hold a bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution and fulfill the school’s admissions requirements.