DPRG mailing list archives: [DPRG] Robotics Universities

Thu Dec 14 13:19:11 CST 2006

I don’t really care about location I’m going many years in advance so I
don’t think that will be a problem, especially if I find a good company that
has the program where they pay for collage if you come work for them, I’m
just not sure they let you chose, but then again if you got someone that is
going 3 ½ - 4 years yearly you might do a lot. 

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From: Randy M. Dumse [mailto:rmd at newmicros.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 1:13 PM
To: 'Mohammad El-Abid'; Dprglist at Dprg.Org
Cc: Brian Huff
Subject: RE: [DPRG] Robotics Universities

UT Arlington has two major robotics groups. One is an autonomous vehicles
lab which does both ground and air vehicles, and the off campus research
site, Atomation and Robotic Research Institute. Dr. Brian Huff is an
occassional club participant. He's from the industrial engineering
department, and his graduate students do it all, mech, programming, design,
everything.

I teach robotics at UNI in the Physics Department, long distance over the
internet. It's part of their digital electronics training. We cover the
physics principles in the semiconductors, the design of the circuits,
microprocessors, programming, and the EM forces in the actuators. In short,
robotics is too broad a subject to be approached from only one discipline.
It's fine to specialize in some field, like mechanics, or in electronics,
but it won't make you a roboticist. You need a much broader exposure.
Consequently, it is not possible to predict which department to look into to
find the best robotics classes.

I haven't heard of much robotics at UTB, or UTD, SMU, althought the club
does have members from those organizations. Are you thinking of going out of
state?

Randy

www.newmicros.com

Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 12:52 PM
To: 'Austin Robotgroup Mailing List'; dprglist at dprg.org
Subject: [DPRG] Robotics Universities

Hello, it seems like I’m going to a university real soon, I was wandering
what is a good robotics university? And when I go for it while it only be
mechs. Or will there also be programming?

Thanks in Advance,

Mohammad

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