Distance Education Program
Software Engineering for Embedded Systems

The programme is offered in partnership with the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering.

Representatives of industry have expressed a great demand for a part-time training program to re-train the existing professional engineering work force in software engineering. Therefore, the DISC has developed a high-quality part-time distance program in "Software Engineering for Embedded Systems". The program imparts theoretical scientific background knowledge as well as practical methods, techniques, and tools that equip the engineer to deal with management issues on the one hand, and software development for embedded systems issues on the other hand:

• The program represents the state-of-the-art in software engineering for embedded systems.

• It has been developed by international top experts in the SE domain, who are both high-ranking researchers and are recognized in industry because of their extensive practical experiences.

High Demand for Software Engineering Practitioners

Today, traditionally hardware-dominated product domains are increasingly turning into software-dominated ones. Many of the companies and organizations in these transitional domains still employ mostly traditional engineers without a profound education and training in software and software engineering.

Software engineering focuses on:

• the specification of system structure and behavior,

• the implementation of these specifications,

• the activities required in order to assure that the specifications have been met,

• the development of such systems over space (distributed development, subcontracting) and time evolution, maintenance.

The increasing complexity of software, the rising demand for secure and high quality software in embedded systems, and the constant change and development of new software engineering methods, techniques, and tools make it necessary that engineers in the embedded systems domain (e.g., automotive, medical and military) receive additional education in software engineering.

Scientific Charge

Prof. Dr. H. Dieter Rombach
Head of the Research Group for Software Engineering and of the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering