From Boston to Bangalore,
UCSD Extension to Provide Global Education for
Publishing and Conference Giant CMP Technology

August 6, 2007

By Henry DeVries

For the first time, engineers attending embedded computing conferences from Boston to Bangalore, India can earn university credits through an innovative global partnership between the University of California San Diego Extension and CMP Technology, a subsidiary of British-based publishing and exhibitions giant United Business Media.

The partnership begins September 17-21, 2007, at the 19th annual Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) Boston, the fall's largest international embedded technical conference and exhibition. ESC attendees from 35 countries will have their choice of more than 100 training sessions, courses and seminars covering methodologies, processes, and techniques fundamental for engineers developing embedded computing systems.

An embedded system is a special-purpose computer system designed to perform a dedicated function. Embedded systems vary in size from portable devices such as digital watches and MP3 players, to large stationary installations like traffic lights, factory controllers, or the systems controlling nuclear power plants. Unlike a general-purpose computer, such as a personal computer, an embedded system performs one or a few pre-defined tasks. Because the system is dedicated to specific tasks, engineers can optimize the design, reducing the size and cost of the product.

United Business Media is a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $3 billion.  Each month, the CMP Technology Electronics Group delivers more than 1 million copies of its print publications, including EE Times, to subscribers in more than 23 countries and online visitors from 100 countries view more than 8 million pages on its Web sites in seven languages including EE Times Online and TechOnLine. More than 40,000 decision makers attend its Embedded Systems Conferences each year in Boston, Silicon Valley, China and Taiwan. An ESC event is already being planned for October 2007 in Bangalore, India.

UC San Diego  -- one of the ten campuses in the world-renowned University of California system -- has rapidly achieved the status as one of the top 50 institutions in the world for higher education and research. As the continuing education and public program arm of the university, UC San Diego Extension educates about 40,000 people a year through innovative local, corporate and online programs. Extension is recognized nationally and internationally for linking the public to expert professionals and the knowledge resources of the University of California.

The UC San Diego Extension Embedded Software Engineering Specialized Certificate is a series of courses that emphasizes the programming as well as the relevant hardware knowledge embedded developers must be familiar with.

ESC Attendees can earn credits for topics such as Real Time Operating Systems, Principles of Safety-Critical Systems Design, Crafting Embedded Systems in C++, Mobile Networks, Multi-core and Multi-Threaded Processors, Power Management, and Wireless Communications.

“We’re very excited about what this new partnership with CMP Technology means to our customers and ESC conference attendees” said Don Muehlbach, the Technology Director for UC San Diego Extension.  “University credit adds real value to the training sessions, courses and seminars.”

Selected ESC programs undergo an extensive review and approval process by UC San Diego’s renowned Jacobs School of Engineering prior to offering credit’s to attendees, adding world-class academic rigor to the technical content. The Jacobs School of Engineering, ranked 3rd in the nation for research expenditures per faculty member by U.S. News and World Report, is one of the reasons why the National Research Council ranks UC San Diego 10th in the nation in the quality of its faculty and graduate programs (The top ten, in rank order, are: UC Berkeley, MIT, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, CalTech, Yale, Chicago, Cornell, UC San Diego).

The training sessions can be applied to various certifications serving as tangible proof of significant continuing education. Further, this partnership will collectively expand distribution resources to reach new audiences globally.

This year the ESC program at Boston’s Hynes Convention Center is organized into 13 tracks to ease the selection process for attendees. Tracks include -- Automotive Technology, Debugging, Verification and Test, Design-Team Management, Digital Signal Processing & Multimedia, Hardware, Linux & Open Source, Multi-core & Multi-threaded Processing, Real-Time Development, Security, Software Development, UML & Modeling, Wired & Wireless Networking, and up-to- the-minute track.

 

Media Contact: Henry DeVries, (619) 540-3031 or (858) 534-9955