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Educating Embedded Engineers

Thursday, March 20th, 2008 by Michael Barr

One of the biggest problems affecting the embedded systems industry is a shortage of properly skilled firmware developers. I spoke of this in a recent video interview.

Embedded software developers need some skills taught to Electrical Engineers and others taught to Computer Scientists. They also need practical hands-on experience. Unfortunately, even the best of the Computer Engineering programs at Universities fail to deliver the right mix for embedded work.

The demand for such skilled help is growing rapidly–with the latest estimates put at over 4 billion embedded products manufactured per year.

Fellow Embedded Guru Mike Anderson wrote a nice piece about all this for an IEEE-USA publication called “Today’s Engineer.” I happened across Mike’s article in print, but you can find it online by the title “Help Wanted: Embedded Engineers.”

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