The Professional Master Of

Embedded And

Cyber-physical Systems

About the Program

UC Irvine is the first university in the U.S. to offer a professional graduate degree in Cyber-physical Systems. The Professional Master of Embedded and Cyber-physical Systems (MECPS) was designed by a group of faculty from the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and the Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Science. The curriculum focuses on the foundation, skills and hands-on practices of embedded computer and cyber-physical systems design, optimization and evaluation. 

Robots, intelligent buildings, implantable medical devices, cars that drive themselves or planes that automatically fly in a controlled airspace—these are all examples of cyber-physical systems (CPS). The future applications of CPS are more transformative then the IT revolution of the past three decades. Next-generation CPS will be able to execute extraordinary tasks that are barely imagined today.

– National Institute of Standards & Technology

Our Graduates Have Exciting Careers

After graduation, 55% of our students are hired within 3 months in industries including IoT Stack Design, Firmware Engineering, Cloud Programming, Defense Systems, Home Automation, Information Technology, Software Engineering and Software Development.

Even before graduation, 19% of our students are receiving job offers.

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Courses

This program is a full-time program lasting four quarters plus summer. Coursework includes nine foundational courses with lectures and laboratory, and two project courses leading to a final project. Courses emphasize embedded computer systems: hardware and software, sensor networks, real-time systems, artificial intelligence, machine learning, security, control and entrepreneurship.

Graduation Project

Students will acquire integrative knowledge of cyber-physical systems as well as hands-on experience in an applied domain through a group or individual graduation project.

Cyber-physical Systems

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) include a broad range of complex, multidisciplinary, next-generation engineered systems that integrate embedded computing technologies (sensors and actuators) and computational algorithms into the physical world.

Careers

Embedded and cyber-physical systems are entrenched in almost every aspect of our daily lives. Information technology researchers forecast that by 2025, upwards of 75.44 billion connected Internet of Things (IoT) devices will be in use worldwide. [Source: IHS  2019]

Faculty and Staff

Faculty from UCI’s schools of engineering and information and computer sciences share their breadth of knowledge in this interdisciplinary program that prepares graduates for jobs in a variety of industries: electronics, aerospace, automotive, transportation, biomedical, manufacturing, robotics, security, defense, civil infrastructure and construction.

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