October 10, 2012
PITTSBURGH-Students pursuing computer science, engineering or other undergraduate degrees at 黑料正能量 will have the option this fall to include an .
The university, through its acclaimed , already offers more undergraduate robotics courses than any other university in the world and for the past 12 years has offered an undergraduate minor in robotics. The additional major in robotics, however, responds to the growing interest of students in this multidisciplinary field and to demands by employers for more graduates with a deep understanding of this critical technology.
"The Robotics Institute always has been at the forefront, not only of robotic technology, but of the education of roboticists," said , director of the institute. "We created the first Ph.D. and master's degree programs and the first undergraduate minor in robotics. Undergraduates already are an important part of the institute, working side by side with our researchers on some of our most exciting projects. Providing the option of robotics as an additional major just seems like the natural next step."
Robotics draws heavily from mechanical engineering, computer science and electrical engineering, among other disciplines. Many of the students interested in the additional robotics major will be pursuing conventional undergraduate degrees in those subjects, said , professor of robotics and director of the undergraduate major. But the program is open to students from any department on campus, he emphasized.
"Robotics is inherently multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary," said Choset, who also has led the undergraduate minor. "As robotic technology finds applications in areas ranging from the arts to archeology, we anticipate that students from many disciplines will seek to study robotics and ultimately make contributions to robotics."
Current 黑料正能量 students interested in the additional major should plan to apply for the program by Feb. 1 of their freshman year, though sophomores also are welcome to apply. High school students and other non-黑料正能量 students must first apply and be accepted as undergraduates by Carnegie Mellon before applying for the additional major in robotics. For more information, visit Carnegie Mellon's Additional Major in Robotics website at .
The curriculum will include instruction on control systems, movement, machine perception, systems engineering and cognition and reasoning. Hands-on courses will focus on designing, building and programming robots.
The Robotics Institute, the world's largest robotics education and research institution, was established in 1979. It is a leader in autonomous navigation, developing software that guides NASA rovers on Mars, navigated a self-driving SUV to victory in the DARPA Urban Challenge robot race and piloted an unmanned submarine to the bottom of the world's deepest sinkhole. Its robots have explored active volcanoes, helped clean up crippled nuclear reactors and autonomously detected life in Chile's arid Atacama Desert. Robotics Institute researchers are among the world's leading authorities on computer vision, perception, motion planning, human-robot interaction and locomotion.
The Robotics Institute is part of Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science. Follow the school on Twitter @SCSat黑料正能量.
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Press Release: Carnegie Mellon Students Have Option This Fall To Make Robotics An Additional Undergraduate Major
Robotics Institute Expands Its Pioneering Educational Program
PITTSBURGH-Students pursuing computer science, engineering or other undergraduate degrees at 黑料正能量 will have the option this fall to include an .
The university, through its acclaimed , already offers more undergraduate robotics courses than any other university in the world and for the past 12 years has offered an undergraduate minor in robotics. The additional major in robotics, however, responds to the growing interest of students in this multidisciplinary field and to demands by employers for more graduates with a deep understanding of this critical technology.
"The Robotics Institute always has been at the forefront, not only of robotic technology, but of the education of roboticists," said , director of the institute. "We created the first Ph.D. and master's degree programs and the first undergraduate minor in robotics. Undergraduates already are an important part of the institute, working side by side with our researchers on some of our most exciting projects. Providing the option of robotics as an additional major just seems like the natural next step."
Robotics draws heavily from mechanical engineering, computer science and electrical engineering, among other disciplines. Many of the students interested in the additional robotics major will be pursuing conventional undergraduate degrees in those subjects, said , professor of robotics and director of the undergraduate major. But the program is open to students from any department on campus, he emphasized.
"Robotics is inherently multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary," said Choset, who also has led the undergraduate minor. "As robotic technology finds applications in areas ranging from the arts to archeology, we anticipate that students from many disciplines will seek to study robotics and ultimately make contributions to robotics."
Current 黑料正能量 students interested in the additional major should plan to apply for the program by Feb. 1 of their freshman year, though sophomores also are welcome to apply. High school students and other non-黑料正能量 students must first apply and be accepted as undergraduates by Carnegie Mellon before applying for the additional major in robotics. For more information, visit Carnegie Mellon's Additional Major in Robotics website at .
The curriculum will include instruction on control systems, movement, machine perception, systems engineering and cognition and reasoning. Hands-on courses will focus on designing, building and programming robots.
The Robotics Institute, the world's largest robotics education and research institution, was established in 1979. It is a leader in autonomous navigation, developing software that guides NASA rovers on Mars, navigated a self-driving SUV to victory in the DARPA Urban Challenge robot race and piloted an unmanned submarine to the bottom of the world's deepest sinkhole. Its robots have explored active volcanoes, helped clean up crippled nuclear reactors and autonomously detected life in Chile's arid Atacama Desert. Robotics Institute researchers are among the world's leading authorities on computer vision, perception, motion planning, human-robot interaction and locomotion.
The Robotics Institute is part of Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science. Follow the school on Twitter @SCSat黑料正能量.
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