Earn academic credit towards Professional Certification while attending ESC Silicon Valley 2008
Building on the success of ESC Boston 2007, attendees at the Embedded Systems Conferences Silicon Valley can earn university credits through an innovative global partnership between the University of California, San Diego-Extension and CMP Technology.
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 partnership begins April 14-18, 2008, at the 20th annual ESC Silicon Valley. All ESC sessions have undergone 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.
This new attendee benefit extends far beyond the week of the event in advancing your career!
For full details attend Earning Embedded Credit through UC San Diego on Friday, April 18th at 8:30am to hear how to best take advantage of this new program.
Speaker(s): Henry DeVries
Here's how it works:
How can units be applied?
- Enhance your resume
- Stand out as a more competitive job candidate
- Apply up to 6 units of credit to two Embedded Engineering Certificate Programs at UC San Diego, Extension:
- Embedded Computer Engineering
- Embedded Computer Software
- Apply towards other related University of California, Extension certificate programs
How do you earn academic credit?
- Attend ESC technical program classes or tutorials
- All conference sessions are eligible.
- A minimum of 6 hours of session attendance is required to earn 0.5 units of credit. You can do this in any combination. Be sure to document which sessions you attend.
- Enroll online at UC San Diego-Extension
- Visit the Embedded Conference Webpage
- Click the "Enroll Now" link
- Proceed through the enrollment process
- Pay fee of $25 (per 0.5 units)
- Evaluation
- Submit a 250 word essay on each session attended
- Email essay to the Program Representative in the Engineering department at UC San Diego, Extension.
- The essay will then be graded by a faculty advisor.
- Once grade is assigned, credit will be awarded
For more information:
Tony Babaian
(858) 622-5740
tbabaian@ucsd.edu
Embedded Engineering Webpage
