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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Randy M. Dumse
[mailto:rmd@newmicros.com] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, December 14, 2006 1:13 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Mohammad El-Abid'; Dprglist@Dprg.Org<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Brian Huff<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [DPRG] Robotics Universities</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue'>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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue'>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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue'>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?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue'>Randy</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue'><a href="http://www.newmicros.com">www.newmicros.com</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Sent:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Thursday, December 14, 2006 12:52
PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Austin Robotgroup Mailing List'; dprglist@dprg.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [DPRG] Robotics Universities</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>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?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Thanks in
Advance,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Mohammad<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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