eACT Technologies, an embedded awareness and training group will introduce Student Enrichment Programmes from September. It is discussing with Universities in KL and Penang, also considering claimable technology programs for corporations.

The programmes include game development, mobile & wireless technology, general ICT and enterprise topics, operating systems & device programming. basic embedded system and system programming.

There are two levels of programs that eACT conducts for students i.e. 3 to 5 day programmes on particular technologies (like Android, iPHONE, Embedded Linux, WinCE development).

“These three to five-day courses are designed especially for third year or final year students in diploma or degree courses to enrich their skills in what's happening in the industry right now, and also to educated them in business and marketing aspects and about the current market demand,” said Suresh Santhana Krishnan, eACT Technologies Technical director.

“These programmes are more in-depth that what's provided at universities and can be an enrichment or add-on programme,” Suresh added.

The Game Development, Mobile & Wireless Technology programme teaches students game development using C++, 3D graphics programming & Direct X, MPEG, JPEG, H.264 video streaming protocol standards, a Wireless & WiMAX technology workshop, Android & iPhone applications development.

The Android curriculum above covers the Android SDK (software development kit) and details of the building blocks, user interface, inter-process communication, threading, graphics, media, networking, locations, sensors and native application implementation in C & C++.

The iPhone curriculum includes teaching students to write iPhone apps which look and function in the same way as native applications on the iPhone. eACT will be using necessary setup including target platform for Android applications. Students will be entertained to bring their own iPHONE/Android phones to download and test the applications for their platform.

The Operating Systems & Device Programming programme includes a Windows CE for devices & drivers workshop and an Embedded Linux using devices & drivers workshop, both using actual hardware – i.e. ARM-based development boards. It also teaches Linux kernel internals & programming, as well as Windows kernel internals & drivers programming.

Basic Embedded Systems and System Programming teaches advanced C & C++ concepts for systems engineers, advanced Java programming, architecture for embedded ARM, XScale and Atom processors, POSIX Standard & ANSI C/MISRA programming, embedded computer design, basic embedded systems & real-time programming.

General ICT & Enterprise Topics includes effective software testing concepts using tools, UML-based programming for model-driven development and an object-oriented analysis and design (OOAD) using unified modelling language (UML) hands-on workshop.

“Course fees depend on the number of students and can range between RM2,500 onwards for a five day course. However, if we have 25 students or more, we could charge less,” said Suresh.

Prerequisites for these courses include all IT diploma, ICT, IT engineering graduates with C or C++ programming knowledge, while working experience in any of the operating systems is preferred but not mandatory.

Some time after Hari Raya, eACT will introduce three-day, hands-on courses in Android and iPhone applications development.

The Android course is designed for professional and amateur Java programmers who want to start apps development of the Android platform and will begin with the basics and progress to advanced topics, with demonstrations and lab exercises covering Android APIs related to media, user interface, storage, 2D & 3D graphics and more on ARM development boards.

Prerequisites include Java programming experience, while familiarity with the Eclipse development platform is preferred.

The iPhone course is for professionals and amateurs in Object Oriented language and will also progress from the basic to the advanced with hands-on learning by way of examples, demos and lab exercises, and will cover the various iPhone APIs such as media, user interface, 2D & 3D graphics and more which are available with the iPhone OS.

The prerequisite is experience in Object-Oriented programming.

Enhancing employability

eACT also offers a one month course to enhance the employability of engineers. These courses which are starting up in Penang and Bangalore are conducted in partnership with universities and colleges to enhance the employability of engineers in the industry, such as with electronics companies in Kuala Lumpur & Penang, the oil & gas industry and others which produce products using embedded software.

eACT typically trains between 200 and 300 engineers annually. Trainers in the above courses worked extensively in US/India on the OpenGL, Graphics. Gaming projects including NASA/Graphics Chip manufacturers. 

Headquartered in Singapore with offices in Malaysian and India, eACT Technologies is software services company specialising in the development of embedded systems and applications used in the aerospace, automotive, defense, telecommunications, transportation, security, nuclear and other industries. It also provide tools towards development of standard like MISRAC, DO-178B, SIL3/4, and communication standards like 61850, 870-5, DNP3, Modbus etc.

For further information on the above courses visit www.embeddedact.com, e-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or call 603-22725945.