Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems

Rainer Doemer, Interim Director
3211 Engineering Hall
949-824-9127
http://www.mecps.uci.edu
[email protected]

The graduate program in Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems is administered by faculty from two academic units: the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, and the Henry Samueli School of Engineering. The program offers the Master of Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems.

Embedded systems are now entrenched into almost every aspect of our daily life, rivaling in ubiquity anything that exists today. Currently, we have tools to help us design embedded systems, making good use of available technologies at a variety of levels and scales, from hardware to interface, operating system, middleware, and software. Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are systems-of-systems that tightly couple their cyber (i.e. computation, communication, and control), and physical components (sensing and actuation) in the context of applications such as (but not limited to): automotive and transportation, manufacturing, power distribution grid, medical and healthcare, robotics, civil infrastructure, avionics, etc.

Thus, these Cyber-Physical Systems marry knowledge from the fields of embedded systems, networking, sensors, real-time systems, and control, as well as domain-specific knowledge, to realize systems that are of untapped complexity and scale. The Master of Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems (MECPS) program's goal is to train students in the foundation, skills, and practices of embedded and cyber-physical systems design, optimization, and evaluation. MECPS draws primarily from Computer Science and from Engineering.

Bachelor’s Degree, 4-5 year degree.

1. Detailed mark sheets (grade reports) for each semester of study and all yearly examinations. Individual examinations and papers must identify the subject and show minimum, maximum and awarded marks as well as overall results. Exams and papers must state the level of pass, class, and division. Rank in class should be indicated, if available.

2. Diplomas or official statements from all degree-granting universities with the date of formal conferral.