Education in Embedded Systems – 2

MSc and MAS (Master of Advanced studies) in Embedded Systems courses are offered at ALaRI (Advanced learning and research institute), Switzerland.

This is another place in Europe which offers specific education in Embedded Systems (the first one being TU Delft, read here for more info). It offers virtually every courses on Embedded Systems and there are many courses which I found only at ALaRI. And good part is that best professor and experts in the area comes and teaches you that subject. In this post I would cover on MSc course at ALaRI.

Course Overview:
Duration: 2 years (120 EC)
Approximate cost for one year: Tuition 8000 CHF (around 5300 Euro) and Living expenses 7000 CHF (around 4600 Euro)

Master project takes up 35% of 2years and remaining time is spent in Courses, seminars and other lab assignments.

Courses offered:
The following list contains only selected few courses offered, for list of all courses visit ALaRI homepage.

1. Architectures by M.G. Sami Politecnico di Milano, Italy
2. Software Compilers by S. Crespi Reghizzi Politecnico di Milano, Italy
3. Transforms Theory by A. Danani SUPSI Lugano, Switzerland
4. RTOS and Scheduling by L. Thiele ETH Zurich, Switzerland and M. Platzner University of Paderborn, Germany
5. Specification Languages by R. Lauwereins IMEC, Leuven, Belgium and M. Engel's FMTC, Belgium
6. Digital Signal Processing by M. Moonen IMEC, Leuven, Belgium
7. Embedded processor design and implementation by R. Leupers, Aachen University of Technology
8. VLIW Architectures by P. Faraboschi HP Labs Cambridge, USA
9. Microelectronics by C. Piguet CSEM, Neuchatel, Switzerland
10. Performance Evaluation by G. Serazzi Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Personally I like the course content very much and would like to cover many topics from it during my masters. If you are interested in higher studies in Embedded Systems, then ALaRI should be in your list of colleges to apply. Also you don't need GRE or TOEFL for application and there is no application fee !

Links:
1. ALaRI home page: http://alari.ch/
Browse through above page, very informative.

2. Student experience at ALaRI. Edulix thread: http://www.edulix.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=69510
You would require registration on Edulix before reading.

Hello world!

embsystems is my new blog, specifically dedicated to perspectives and thoughts on Embedded Systems area. Specifically I want to cover following points,

1. Various application areas

2. List of companies active in this space (I know this is huge, but want to classify and maintain the list)

3. Graduate level education in this space, especially American and European university.

4. Types of job and skills required for it, to give a brief idea to any budding aspirant.

5. My personal experience and learnings working in this field (in past two years).