This online master's program prepares you for a career in assistive technology development. Designed for working adults, the program emphasizes hands-on experience and helps you build a portfolio of design projects to share with prospective employers. In courses with other working engineers, you'll learn how to: Design and develop new assistive technology products Manage highly technical teams and projects Identify new uses for existing assistive technologies Develop a systems mindset Expand your technical abilities Courses include product design and development, project management, robotic applications, software development, and augmentative and alternative communications.<br><br>The degree program is a joint effort among three colleges: the College of Engineering and Computer Science, the College of Health and Human Development, and The Tseng College of Extended Learning. The distinctive feature of this program is the collaborative effort of the design and delivery of the curriculum, drawing upon expertise from various colleges at CSUN and regional and national practitioner groups. The core curriculum covers the essentials of anatomy, biology and human factors. Beyond the core curriculum, engineering design and development, instrumentation and measurement, applied biomechanics and motor control, robotic applications and control interfaces, augmentative and alternative communication, software development and project management constitute topics for this unique program.