Undergraduate program
Michigan Robotics is the first top-ten engineering program to have a robotics department, and with it, one of the first in the country to offer an undergraduate robotics degree. As a pioneer in teaching undergraduate robotics, we are helping to define the curriculum. Primary courses include ROB 101: Computational Linear Algebra, ROB 102: Intro to Programming and AI, ROB 103: Robotics Mechanisms, and ROB 204: Intro to Human-Robot Interaction. From there, students can pursue any number of focuses, diving further into hardware and mechatronics with deeper study of sensors to exploring computing and autonomy with deeper study of operating systems, mapping and navigation.
Michigan also has the unique opportunity to create this curriculum with a priority on both equity and excellence. For this, we have established distributed teaching collaboratives with Historically Black Colleges and Universities and other Minority Serving Institutions, teaching these courses in conjunction with faculty from Berea, Morehouse, and Spelman Colleges.
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Michigan Robotics is the first top-ten engineering program to have a robotics department, and with it, one of the first in the country to offer an undergraduate robotics degree. As a pioneer in teaching undergraduate robotics, we are helping to define the curriculum. Primary courses include ROB 101: Computational Linear Algebra, ROB 102: Intro to Programming and AI, ROB 103: Robotics Mechanisms, and ROB 204: Intro to Human-Robot Interaction. From there, students can pursue any number of focuses, diving further into hardware and mechatronics with deeper study of sensors to exploring computing and autonomy with deeper study of operating systems, mapping and navigation.
Michigan also has the unique opportunity to create this curriculum with a priority on both equity and excellence. For this, we have established distributed teaching collaboratives with Historically Black Colleges and Universities and other Minority Serving Institutions, teaching these courses in conjunction with faculty from Berea, Morehouse, and Spelman Colleges.
What's really fantastic, I think, about the group of faculty here is, yes, we're all here because we’re excited about robots, but it's just been really important to me and I think to all of my colleagues that we put humans first. And we definitely practice these values every day in the classroom, we you practice these values when we're working with our colleagues and our students in our labs, we practice these values when we go out into the public and try to share the excitement of what we are doing, and we practice these values when we recruit students, staff and faculty to join this amazing endeavor that we have here.
Related
- YouTube: ROB 101 - Flipping the script on engineering education
- YouTube: ROB 102 - Intro to AI & Programming
- YouTube: ROB 103 - Robotic Mechanisms
- GitHub: ROB 101 - Computational Linear Algebra Course Material
- Robotics Major in the College of Engineering