Educating Embedded Engineers

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."