Be a part of bridging the gap between software and hardware design by expanding your knowledge and applying new ideas in practical design through hands-on education at Oregon Tech

What You'll Learn

The goal of the Embedded Systems Engineering Technology (ESET) program is to prepare you with the skills demanded by real-world industries. Key to this process is hands-on experience with Embedded Systems platforms.

The ESET program at Oregon Tech will prepare you to enter firmware development on these highly robust, mission critical platforms.

The program is a blend of small class sizes and hands-on labs and projects, bringing the devices of interest directly into the hands of students. This is an applied program, where the learning is in the doing.

Students work directly with concepts and technologies such as:

  • Systems on a Chip
  • Embedded Networking
  • Real Time Operating Systems
  • Embedded Testing
  • Embedded Security

Hardware and Software Common First Year

The CSET Department's common first year allows you to take courses in all three modalities. This common core enables you to sample courses in the Computer Engineering Technology, Embedded Systems Engineering Technology, and Software Engineering Technology programs helping you make a more educated decision based on your experiences in your first year of college.

Successful completion of this degree requires intensive, hands-on use of computers. Therefore, all students are required to own their own computer. To ensure compatibility with campus-wide computers and networks, students should consult a department faculty member for a specification sheet.

 

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Careers

The ESET program at Oregon Tech prepares students to enter software development on highly robust, mission critical platforms. Engineers with this knowledge are in high demand, and the demand curve is growing exponentially. This program prepares students for productive careers in industry and government.

Graduates of the ESET program enjoy immediate employment in a technically hungry industry. Individuals obtaining a degree in ESET end up working in demanding positions where programming precision and accountability are top priority.

Recent demand has seen industry recruiters ask for ESET graduates specifically. This is a growth industry. Demand for ESET skills will only increase.

Cooperative Field Experience

The Multiple Engineering Cooperative Program (MECOP) includes work experience during the junior and senior years. The co-op period is an employment arrangement with an employer in the area of the student's major field with normal salary and academic credit. These arrangements are made on an individual basis and the student is under no obligation to accept permanent employment with any previous co-op employer.

Klamath Falls
Lor Zachary
Zachary Lor
Alumni, Class of 2024
“The greatest learning experience that I have gained was the ability to recognize that after high school, I realized I needed to stay busy to achieve good grades. By being busy, I found out that not only was I able to manage my free time better, but I was able to find both work-life balance and create more networks by being more active within the Oregon Tech community.”
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Embedded Systems Engineering Technology Faculty

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Klamath Falls
Troy Scevers
Troy Scevers
Associate Professor

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The Oregon Tech ESET curriculum gives critical knowledge in an area of software engineering which exists directly on the hardware, providing low level operation and hardware abstraction to higher level software constructs.

This program provides an excellent education; incorporating industry-relevant, applied laboratory-based instruction in both the theory and application of embedded systems engineering. Our focus is educating students to meet the growing workforce demand in Oregon and elsewhere for graduates prepared in both hardware and software aspects of embedded systems.

Program Curriculum

Featured Courses

The hands-on courses at Oregon Tech will help you prepare for a career in the Embedded Systems Engineering. Some courses that a Embedded Systems Engineering student at Oregon Tech might take include:

Digital Systems Design

Concepts, terminology and techniques in design and implementation of digital system components. Synchronous sequential logic design with emphasis on state machines. 

Embedded System Architecture

Configuration, programming, testing, debugging of embedded systems. Interfacing issues related to timing and protocol. Impact of processor architect and I/O methods on system performance.

Real Time Embedded Op Systems

OS Kernel Constructs and problem scaling, small scale environment specification, process, threads, fibers, synchronization primitives, small scale memory management, scheduling paradigms, real time scheduling, I/O and debugging.

System on a Chip Design

System level design representations, and modeling languages. Target architecture models. Intra-chip communication. Partitioning algorithms. Task time measurement. Back annotation of timing.