I am looking for university that offer master degree in embedded system or computer engineering.
Is anybody has any idea? university in any country

 

The University of Texas at Austin has a very good computer engineering and they also have 4 embedded/dsp lab courses. I am partial, I got my masters and doctorate there and enjoyed it and thought the courses were very good.

 

oh yea... I have checked the MSc offered by the universities, and I realized there are only a few university offer MSc major in embedded system.
Texas-Austin is one of them, some british unvirsities like Eidnhoven, Huddersfield,Heriot-Watt etc, and NTU in Singapore.

These names seemed strange to me...so.. I'm not sure if they are good

 

If you're looking for a really great all round program the University of
California at Berkeley (www.berkeley.edu) has one of the top engineering programs in the U.S. They offer a degree called Electrical Engineering and Computer Science that covers both topics. The curiculum tends to emphasize theory rather than implementation but if you pick your courses carefully you will get some good hands on labs. All of the University of California campuses have good engineering programs.

Hope this helps

Brent

 

University California-Berkeley is undoubtedly one of the top uversity in engineering. I have browsed through the master program offered in berkeley, their taught course looks like research one. That is rather too scientific, i am looking for course that is more toward engineering practices.

 

UT Austin would NOT be a good choice then. Most of the classes (particularly graduate level) are theory though they almost always have a project component. They are usually simulates this, or design this, etc. I had one where you had to find the transfer function of an RC filter. Sounded easy at the time, but they included all of the parasitic resistances and capacitances which made the problem time consuming. The idea was how to model systems actual behavior vs. the typical design behavior.

 

That sounds like VLSI design . It seems like these universities are emphasizing on building everthing from scratch. While I more interested in the embedded system design consideration, architecture, programming

 

I wouldn't say the emphasize building everyting from scratch. By learning how to design things from scratch you get a better understanding about how to use them correctly. In on of my classes we designed an Opamp from scratch - I have a much greater understanding about how they work after trying to design one. (Our opamp ended up having several watts of quiecent power - gives you a whole new respect for those uA amps that you can buy)

Brent

 

oOoOoo. What are you major in?? I designed an op amp (simulation only) in my first degree's Electronics. Well.. I thought that is categorized under IC Design?

 

I was "Electrical Engineering and Computer Science". You can take all sorts of classes: Computer science, Signal processing, control, Electromagnetism, Digital design, Semiconductor fabrication etc. My experience was with undergraduate work but the graduate couses are similar.

Brent

 

For the sake of completeness, my degrees are in Electrical. But you could take optics, electromagnetics, power electronics, semiconductor manufacturing (doping, etc), vlsi, software design, and anything in the computer science program. Since I was there so long, I took just about everything that was available with a few exceptions. One of the benefits of large schools is that they have lots of research groups and therefore lots of diversity in the types of courses they teach.

 

Unfortunately, my school didnt offer me much oppurtunity. I'm in Electrical, just exposed little to computer. Therefore now i am seeking MSc in Computer system. hm.. however, I found some quite interesting books on embedded system.. so.. I guess self learning is possible too, with longer time required.

 

I know UMIST in Manchester UK offer an embedded systems MSc. They've got an excellent international profile, so may be good for you? If you are thinking about the UK, it's also worth checking out University of Bristol and Imperial College London. All are red brick (equivalent of Ivy League in the states) institutions with a reputation for electrical and electronic engineering.

Good luck

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If you want to do something with AI, or more oreintated on control, then Reading University has a lot of courses geared around Cybernetics. As does Bristol (as mentioned above) but reading has been doing this for longer, and is also another red brick. Oh its in the UK too. (Pronounced red-ing not read-ing).

 

Reading is supposed to be superb in this field. They have Kevin Warwick (the cyborg chap) as a Professor. A quick google search on his name will show you some of his work. I had brief contact with one of his Post Grad students who was loving the course there.

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