Certificates are intended primarily for working professionals, and provide a "bite-sized" chunk of graduate coursework. See Professional Master of Computer Science (MCS) for additional information.

Required Certificate Prerequisites–must be completed prior to admission.
CSCD 240	C AND UNIX PROGRAMMING
or CSCD 255	C PROGRAMMING FOR ENGINEERS
CSCD 260	ARCHITECTURE AND ORGANIZATION
or EENG 260	MICROCONTROLLER SYSTEMS
EENG 160	DIGITAL CIRCUITS
MATH/HONS 161	CALCULUS I
Certificate Requirements
CSCD 561	EMBEDDED SYSTEMS	4
CSCD 562	EMBEDDED REAL-TIME CONTROL	4
CSCD 601	RESEARCH REPORT	4
Total Credits		12

Students who successfully earn a Embedded Systems, Graduate Certificate from EWU should be able to design and program embedded systems that make use of the following components and features:

• a microcontroller or microprocessor;
• actuators such as solenoids and relays;
• analog to Digital and Digital to Analog converters (ADC and DAC);
• asynchronous interrupts and Interrupt Service Routines;
• custom circuits designed with a Hardware Description Language and implemented in Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA)​;
• embedded component communications such as I2C and SPI;
• environmental sensors such as temperature, light, proximity;
• PID Feedback Control;
• priority-driven pre-emptive multi-tasking;
• pulse Width Modulation (PWM);
• real-time deadlines for periodic and aperiodic tasks;
• timer circuits and real-time clocks.