Masters Degrees (Programing)

Become a Change Agent with Education for Sustainability.

The Master in Education with a focus on Sustainability, Creativity and Innovation (SCI) provides educators with the core competencies to become leaders in sustainability education. The program will provide you with the knowledge and skills to create transformative learning opportunities for others.

The M. Ed. (SCI) is designed for both formal and non-formal educators, administrators, innovators, classroom teachers, and environmental, community, and sustainability leaders. This M. Ed. (SCI) utilizes the competencies for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) that have been defined by the United Nations and emphasizes the significance of utilizing a holistic approach that enables the learner to envision change and engage in personal and professional transformation. Applying these sustainability principles with creativity and an entrepreneurial orientation contributes to well-being for all, sustainably.

Program Overview

-Flexible online course delivery
-Designed for part-time study
-Can be completed in 36 months
-Option of course work only (non- thesis) or a thesis route. See program layout and course descriptions here.
-Non-thesis students complete seven core graduate courses (21 credits) and three graduate elective courses (3 credits per course)
-Thesis students complete five core graduate courses (3 credits each); two graduate electives (3 credits each), and a thesis (9 credits)
-Curriculum is a total of 30 credits

Why an M. Ed. in SCI?

-Become a stronger, more empowered leader for sustainability education
-Affirm, clarify, and enhance your sustainability knowledge and skills to create transformative opportunities for teaching and learning
-Deepen your knowledge with engaging content and innovative ideas
-Inspire others to create positive, powerful learning strategies designed to foster well-being for all, sustainably
-Enhance your skills as well as your resume with field-based research experiences and practical project design and implementation in your own setting
-Position yourself as a leader and change agent in a the emerging fields of sustainability scholarship and the Green Economy

Why CBU?

-Our Education Department has a core focus on Education for Sustainability with all students completing a core course Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future
-Our Education programs offer students groundbreaking courses related to sustainable happiness, sustainability education, aboriginal culture and language, positive mental health, and Living Schools
-Our faculty are committed to teaching excellence and undertaking original research to support the sustainability scholarship
-CBU is committed to being a leader in developing programing and providing opportunities that foster sustainability creativity, and innovation
-CBU is home to the Verschuren Centre for Sustainability in Energy and the Environment, a research, development leader for clean technology

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Humber’s Information Technology Solutions graduate certificate program is carefully designed to support students without an information technology (IT) background. Our program offers an introductory first semester with an introduction to software development, database concepts and web development preparing students to engage in advanced study following their own selection of options in areas including database development, database administration, enterprise software development (.NET/Java), web development, and mobile application development (Android and/or iOS) in subsequent semesters of study.

This program provides the concepts, skills and knowledge required to work as a mobile (Android or iOS) application developer, Java/.NET application developer, DBAs for Oracle/SQL Server, as well as back-end or front-end web developers.

Working on team projects and individually, you will create commercial applications that apply theories to the creation, administration and development of databases as well as database-driven mobile, web and desktop applications. Project management and presentation skills are a key component of the program.

Professional Accreditations

Upon completion of the certificate, graduates may have the skills necessary to quality them to write industry certification examinations in their area of specialization.

Course detail

Upon successful completion of the program, a graduate will:

• Install, configure, program and maintain IT applications (including operating systems, database management systems).
• Create customized software.
• Debug, document and repair bugs in applications.
• Identify, analyze and document the client’s business and system requirements.
• Interpret, create, and present work-related documents and information effectively and accurately.
• Create and manage normalized and relational data tables including constraints.
• Write programs that communicate with other computers over a network.
• Develop and implement dynamic web applications using appropriate programming language, databases and data sources.
• Identify, analyze and apply object oriented (O-O) model and concepts including objects, classes, encapsulation, inheritance, abstraction, polymorphism, behaviour, and interfaces.
• Plan and execute successful IT and project development activities utilizing project management skills and software.
• Design, develop and implement authentication and secure applications.
• Identify ethical issues in Information Technology projects and propose strategies to address these issues.
• Implement personal and professional development strategies to improve job performance and promote professional growth.
• Identify the underlying architectural system structures and components for a given enterprise software application.
• Describe current trends and challenges in Information Technology projects.

Modules

Semester 1
• ITC 5101: Operating Systems
• ITC 5102: Java Programing 1
• ITC 5103: Web Programming and Design
• ITC 5104: Introduction to Database and SQL
• ITC 5105: Requirement Analysis and Process Modelling

Semester 2
• ITC 5201: Database Programming using Java
• ITC 5202: XML and Java Script

Semester 3
• ITC 5301: Career Connections
• ITC 5302: Project Management

Semester 4
• ITC 5401: Employee Engagement
• ITC 5402: Capstone Project

Work Placement

This program does not have a work placement component. However, in conjunction with the Career Connections course, we provide graduates with job search assistance at the end of the program. Students are encouraged to market themselves to prospective employers.

Your Career

Graduates will qualify for full-time and freelance employment as enterprise software developers; junior and intermediate software developers; enterprise programmers for e-commerce; web programmers; intranet, extranet and database developers; or database administrators in corporate, small- and medium-sized businesses, government, entertainment, education, healthcare and the not-for-profit sectors.

How to apply

Click here to apply: http://humber.ca/admissions/how-apply.html

Funding

For information on funding, please use the following link: http://humber.ca/admissions/financial-aid.html

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The MSc in Electronics with Embedded Systems aims to produce postgraduates with an advanced level of understanding in the design of real-time embedded systems for time-critical, power sensitive applications. Practical skillset development is emphasized throughout the course. Students will be taught the theory, protocol and the efficient use of both analogue and digital interfaces and sensor devices together with the principles of and use of Real-Time-Operating-Systems (RTOS). A key focus of the course will be in the implementation of power aware sustainable solutions, the course will provide an in-depth discussion of the underlying power management hardware sub-systems within modern MCUs and will show and use software techniques that will exploit these to reduce power consumption.

Broader consideration of embedded system design will be examined. In particular, the design process, risk assessment, product life-cycle, software life-cycle, safety and regulation will be investigated and used. It is intended that the course will re-focus existing knowledge held by the student in software engineering and hardware engineering and deliver a set of enhanced practical skills that will enable the student to fully participate in this multi-disciplined, fast expanding and dominating engineering sector of embedded systems.

Course Structure

Each MSc course consists of three learning modules (40 credits each) plus an individual project (60 credits). Each learning module consists of a short course of lectures and initial hands-on experience. This is followed by a period of independent study supported by a series of tutorials. During this time you complete an Independent Learning Package (ILP). The ILP is matched to the learning outcomes of the module. It can be either a large project or a series of small tasks depending on the needs of each module. Credits for each module are awarded following the submission of a completed ILP and its successful defence in a viva voce examination. This form of assessment develops your communication and personal skills and is highly relevant to the workplace. Overall, each learning module comprises approximately 400 hours of study.

The project counts for one third of the course and involves undertaking a substantial research or product development project. For part-time students, this can be linked to their employment. It is undertaken in two phases. In the first part, the project subject area is researched and a workplan developed. The second part involves the main research and development activity. In all, the project requires approximately 600 hours of work.

Further flexibility is provided within the structure of the courses in that you can study related topic areas by taking modules from other courses as options (pre-requisite knowledge and skills permitting).

Prior to starting your course, you are sent a Course Information and Preparation Pack which provides information to give you a flying start.

MSc Electronics Suite of Courses

The MSc in Electronics has four distinct pathways:
-Robotic and Control Systems
-Embedded Systems
-System-on-Chip Technologies
-Medical Instrumentation

The subject areas covered within the four pathways of the electronic suite of MSc courses offer students an excellent launch pad which will enable the successful graduate to enter into these ever expanding, fast growing and dominant areas. With ever increasing demands from consumers such as portability, increased battery life and greater functionality combined with reductions in cost and shrinking scales of technologies, modern electronic systems are finding ever more application areas.

A vastly expanding application base for electronic systems has led to an explosion in the use of embedded system technologies. Part of this expansion has been led by the introduction of new medical devices and robotic devices entering the main stream consumer market. Industry has also fed the increase in demand particularly within the medical electronics area with the need of more sophisticated user interfaces, demands to reduce equipment costs, demands for greater accessibility of equipment and a demand for ever greater portability of equipment.

There are plenty of opportunities for employment in the electronic systems subject area, in particular, there is a demand for engineers that can solve problems requiring a multi-disciplined approach covering skills from software engineering, control engineering, digital electronic systems engineering, analogue electronic engineering, medical physics, and mechanics amongst others. The MSc in Electronics and its specialist pathways will provide the foundations required to re-focus existing knowledge and enter this exciting world of multi-disciplined jobs.

The technical tasks undertaken in ILPs, along with the required major project, thoroughly exercise the concepts covered in the course modules and give scope for originality and industry-relevant study. Team-working activities encouraged within modules, along with the all-oral individual examination regimen employed in this Electronics MSc Suite, have proven solidly beneficial in refining the communication and employability-enhancing skills that are strongly valued by industry.

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