Courses - Competence Development Programme

Educating our future
high-tech system architects

Embedded Systems Institute

Today’s high-tech systems, from mobile phones and cars to complex, highly automated mechatronic systems in industry, rely heavily on embedded technology to make them more powerful, flexible, and intelligent. The need to develop highly performant and dependable embedded systems efficiently and effectively has become a major issue for the industry, creating a strong demand for innovative embedded systems design and engineering capabilities as well as know-how.

The Embedded Systems Institute (ESI) aims to meet precisely this demand. Its mission is 'to advance industrial innovation and academic excellence in embedded system engineering for high tech systems'. Within this general mission, it is a key objective of ESI to raise embedded system design from a craft to a scientifically based engineering discipline.
 

Open-Innovation Research Network

As an innovation leader in its domain, ESI operates world-class research programmes in embedded system engineering, based on an open-innovation research network with participation of leading industries and universities, both national and international. Through its ‘Industry-as-Laboratory’ approach, ESI combines academic excellence with industrial applicability, creating value for all participants in its network.
 

Career Development of System Architects

 

A main problem within the high-tech industry today is the shortage of highly qualified and experienced system designers. ESI works towards its solution by offering a Competence Development Programme to accelerate the development of professional engineers into top-class system architects. ESI has created a thorough and balanced educational and coaching programme following the 'Industry-as-Classroom' format. Part of the programme is carried out in cooperation with the Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey (USA). View folder (online) View folder (pdf)

A top-class system architect requires a well-balanced understanding of multi-disciplinary design and engineering, combined with an in-depth knowledge of product, market and business drivers.

ESI Competence Development Programme

The ESI Competence Development Programme focuses on three key concerns in professional development: (1) multi-disciplinary technological knowledge and understanding, (2) broadening of capabilities for integral system design and engineering, i.e. beyond the responsibility for individual system aspects, (3) professional capabilities to align technology- and design choices with product, market, and business drivers. The programme contains a number of special educational components, such as on-the-job coaching by senior system architects, temporary job rotation between participating industrial partners, a programme of courses and on-the-job assignments.

This programme has been developed in cooperation with the High-tech Systems Platform, a professional network of high-tech industries in the Netherlands.
 

More information

The lead-designer level will start on May 25, 2010
The domain architect level is scheduled to start in Q4 2010

Scheduled (tentative) dates for the lead-designer level are:

25, 26*, 27 May		Introduction / System engineering
2, 3* June		System engineering
24, 25, 28* June		Motion control
7, 8, 9 September		Electronics
5, 6, 7, 8 October		Embedded software
9, 10, 11 November		Programmable hardware
7, 8, 9, 10 December		System Integration
* : incl. evening session

For more information please contact Joris van den Aker: +31 - 40 - 247 4720