Professional Certificate in Basic Electronics and Microcontroller Programming for IoT

Professional Certificate

Programme Structure

Programme Name	Programme Schedule	Mode of Delivery	Programme Code
Basic Electronics for IoT	To be advised	Classroom Learning	TGS-2022012272
Microcontroller Programming for IoT	To be advised	Classroom Learning	TGS-2022013116
Device Communications for IoT	30 May, 31 May 2024 \| 9am-5.30pm	Classroom Learning	TGS-2022013103

Duration 6 days

Programme Overview

This Professional Certificate is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of IoT. The first course covers basic electronics, and teaches students how to design circuits to support microcontroller applications. The second course focuses on microcontroller programming, and teaches students how to prototype intelligent systems by interfacing microcontrollers with sensors and actuators. The third course covers device communications, and teaches students how to connect smarter devices to microcontrollers and to get microcontrollers to communicate with each other using various protocols. By completing all three courses, students will be able to design, build, and program the IoT devices, and implement complete IoT systems, including the communicating protocols.

Programme Objectives

This Professional Certificate will equip learners with the following competencies:

Analyze, understand and design basic electronic circuits that will be used to support microcontroller applications for IoT
Able to prototype intelligent systems by interfacing microcontrollers with sensors and actuators, and performing computation.
Able to connect smarter and more powerful devices to microcontrollers, and to get microcontrollers to communicate with each other

Job Role Readiness

It will prepare learners in the following job roles to perform their responsibilities more effectively:

IoT Engineer

Who Should Attend

IoT Engineers and Computing Professionals.

Prerequisites

Bachelor’s Degree in Computing or Mathematics, with programming knowledge
Other Bachelor’s Degree holders with programming knowledge may be considered.

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This programme is part of

Advanced Professional Certificate in Internet of Things

Instructors

A/Prof Colin Tan Keng Yan

A/Prof Colin Tan Keng Yan is a senior lecturer at the Department of Computer Science, NUS School of Computing. He specializes in embedded systems and operating systems related courses. Colin has taught courses on real-time system design, operating systems, programming methodology, and had taught a course on software product development for digital markets. In this course students are given a semester to build three production quality software systems, with the first two being on Facebook and on HTML5, and in the third project students are given free rein on the technologies that they would like to use. The third project is particularly beneficial to students, as they get real first-hand experience in building a software product, from conceptualizing, validating their concept with users, to User Interface (UI) design, UI validation with users, building the system, and finally to marketing their systems to recruit thousands of users before their project submission deadline. Projects completed in this module have spawned startups like Pearcomms, HunQRy and PaperBaton, while alumni in this course have gone on to careers in tech giants like Facebook, Google and Microsoft. Colin, together with two other CS colleagues and three ECE colleagues, is currently teaching a course that gives first-year Computer Engineering students first-hand experience in building non-trivial computer systems like tele-operated robots. Students learn key issues of high-efficiency hardware programming, dealing with electro-mechanical issues like variations in motor and gearbox quality, secure network communications, and real-time mapping of the environment using algorithms like SLAM. They also pick up key skills like performing independent research, and learning how to improvise to solve problems with limited resources. Colin also runs courses in drone design, construction and programming. Colin has written a lightweight operating system for the Arduino called ArdOS that fits into less than a kilobyte of memory, available at https://bitbucket.org/ctank/ardos-ide/wiki/Home. He has also written several other libraries for the Arduino including smartTimer, a library for writing timer-based embedded systems, which also includes a software-based real-time clock for the Arduino, and smartSerial, a bare-metal bare-bones serial communications library for the Arduino. His Bitbucket repository is available at https://www.bitbucket.org/ctank. Colin is Lab Coordinator for Makers@SoC, a maker space that was recently set up to give students a chance to immerse themselves in maker culture, which is a blend of DIY and technology. Makers@SoC addresses two key concerns of the industry: that we are producing technology professionals who can only code and cannot build anything physical – a key concern in fields like IoT – and that CS majors may not have a good appreciation of the hardware on which they build their systems. Makers@SoC runs courses in 3D modeling, basic electronics, microcontroller interfacing and programming, circuit design and fabrication, and through-hole and surface-mount soldering. Colin is Chairperson for the IT Software Solutions for Business trade for Worldskills Singapore 2016 and Worldskills Singapore 2018, and has been a long-time General Secretary for the National Olympiad for Informatics (NOI) competition. Outside of academia Colin reads widely into Catholic theology, is a sponsor and a speaker at the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) Programme, and is a council member and a formation instructor at the Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites (OCDS) in the Roman Catholic Church of Singapore. He is also an avid foodie, a cigar collector, an enthusiast of retro technology, and a somewhat decent and fairly eclectic cook.

Dr Rajesh Chandrasekhara Panicker

Programme Fees

Singapore Citizens		Singapore PRs	Enhanced Training Support for SMEs	International Participants
39 years old or younger	40 years old or older	Singapore PRs	Enhanced Training Support for SMEs	International Participants
S$1,863.90	S$723.90	S$1,863.90	S$723.90	S$6,213.00

Total Nett Programme Fee Payable, Including GST, after additional funding from the various funding schemes
Participants must fulfill at least 75% attendance and pass all assessment components for all short courses within a professional certificate in order to be eligible for SSG funding.
GST shall apply at prevailing rates.

A/Prof Colin Tan Keng Yan

Dr Rajesh Chandrasekhara Panicker

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