Author Topic: university ads for robotics programs (Read 3344 times)

Admin · « **on:** July 08, 2009, 12:49:06 PM »

For those who want to know what universities offer robotics:
http://www.expo21xx.com/automation21xx/university.htm

Don't ask a question until you read this:
http://www.societyofrobots.com/robot_faq.shtml#best_robot_college

I still say CMU is the best!

SmAsH · « **Reply #1 on:** July 08, 2009, 03:47:55 PM »

is that list universal? i tried searching for my local uni that offers robotics but got nothing?

kpmcgurk · « **Reply #2 on:** July 08, 2009, 03:58:05 PM »

they are probably only US universitys

Canabots · « **Reply #3 on:** July 08, 2009, 04:38:09 PM »

No, they aren't only US

They're from North America, Europe, Asia, Africa... possibly more, but I only looked at the first page on that link

mdmedlin · « **Reply #4 on:** July 08, 2009, 11:38:52 PM »

I didn't see any add for this university but I will be applying there after I finish my bachelor's in CS.
https://robotics.ucmerced.edu/Robotics
I know that UC Merced is a rather small and new UC and probably not a lot of people have heard about them, but it is close to home and since I work at a manufacturing plant where we have just started to integrate industrial robots, I figured that it would be a good fit

jamort · « **Reply #5 on:** July 09, 2009, 04:55:01 AM »

if im thinking right when i went to cmu they said they had campuses overseas?

SmAsH · « **Reply #6 on:** July 09, 2009, 05:09:58 AM »

i know for australia that deakin and monash have mechatronics courses available.
i think also adelaide university has them too?
Monash http://www.monash.edu.au/study/coursefinder/browse/engineering/?area_of_study_ids=24&course_level_id=2&location_id=0&action=Find+courses
Deakin http://www.deakin.edu.au/scitech/eng/courses/undergraduate.php
Adelaide uni (where i think awally88 goes

) http://www.adelaide.edu.au/programfinder/ug/eng/

Admin · « **Reply #7 on:** July 09, 2009, 10:07:25 AM »

Quote from: jamort on July 09, 2009, 04:55:01 AM

if im thinking right when i went to cmu they said they had campuses overseas?

Satellite campuses, none of which offer robotics or the full multi-disciplinary experience.

Weird Fishes · « **Reply #8 on:** July 09, 2009, 03:25:35 PM »

I'm going to University of Waterloo in the fall for Computer Engineering. (In fact, I just got my schedule today!) They have a mechatronics engineering program, as well as a mechatronics option, which I also plan on taking (basically it just fills up all your electives with mechatronics courses, but you get it on your degree). Mechatronics is pretty much robotics.

...Plus, they have a sweet robotics club, which I am definitely joining as soon as I get there.

SmAsH · « **Reply #9 on:** July 09, 2009, 04:05:11 PM »

mechatronics is computer science, mechanics and electronics isn't it?
pretty much the three things that make up robotics?

Weird Fishes · « **Reply #10 on:** July 09, 2009, 04:06:28 PM »

Quote from: SmAsH on July 09, 2009, 04:05:11 PM

mechatronics is computer science, mechanics and electronics isn't it?
pretty much the three things that make up robotics?

pretty much, yeah.

Joker94 · « **Reply #11 on:** July 10, 2009, 08:01:16 PM »

do you need tertiary entrance rank to get in to university in canada other places and not just australia, and if not do they call it somthing else.

Weird Fishes · « **Reply #12 on:** July 10, 2009, 08:06:33 PM »

Quote from: Joker94 on July 10, 2009, 08:01:16 PM

do you need tertiary entrance rank to get in to university in canada other places and not just australia, and if not do they call it somthing else.

I've never heard of tertiary entrance rank...

SmAsH · « **Reply #13 on:** July 10, 2009, 10:42:32 PM »

I think only australia uses it...
All around australia it has different names.
TER (Tertiary Entrance Rank) is used south australia, northern territory, western australia and Tasmania.
It is called ENTER (equivalent national tertiary entrance rank) In Victoria
They use OP (overall position) in Queensland
Its called UAI (universities admission index) in new south wales (where i am) and ACT

they're used for entry into most undergraduate-entry university programs, so they are your ticket into uni...
the higher your mark, the better your chances of getting into a decent university.

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The assessment mark is that obtained from the internal school examinations a student sits over the last term of year 11 and the three terms of year 12. The school marks are sent to the UAC from the Board of Studies, and from these students are ranked from first to last. The student ranked first is then assigned a moderated assessment mark equal to the highest examination mark scored by that group of students, regardless of who scored it, and similarly the student ranked last will receive the lowest examination mark. The rest of the students have their assessment marks moderated between these two values, with the proportional difference between the marks remaining the same (for instance, the gap of 10 between two marks spread over a range of 20% will be halved if the range is halved to 10%).

wikipedia^^

kpmcgurk · « **Reply #14 on:** July 11, 2009, 07:27:12 AM »

So is it kinda like the SAT/ACT here in the US, or is it more like a grade point average?

SmAsH · « **Reply #15 on:** July 11, 2009, 07:38:08 AM »

Quote from: kpmcgurk on July 11, 2009, 07:27:12 AM

So is it kinda like the SAT/ACT here in the US, or is it more like a grade point average?

yes, they are similar... ours is pretty much just a number that defines your high school certificate mark, the higher the better. but damn, yours costs $45k?

kpmcgurk · « **Reply #16 on:** July 11, 2009, 07:59:08 AM »

our what costs 45k?

SmAsH · « **Reply #17 on:** July 11, 2009, 03:25:42 PM »

never mind

its $45, i read way wrong!

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College Board claims that the SAT can determine whether or not a person is ready for college. The current SAT Reasoning Test takes three hours and forty-five minutes and costs $45 ($71 International), excluding late fees.

Joker94 · « **Reply #18 on:** July 12, 2009, 05:49:20 AM »

i think they work it out by adding all of you year 12 percentages and averaging them out to get an over all percent, that is in certain states of Australia

to enter a mechetronics engineering course you need something like 86.8 %, it may have changed,

what is the percentage for similar engineering courses in other australian states and other countries

awally88 · « **Reply #19 on:** July 12, 2009, 06:02:50 PM »

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mechatronics is computer science, mechanics and electronics isn't it?

Only Mechanical / Electronics generally, computer science goes into programming a lot more than Mechatronics.

@Australia: Don't worry about understanding the TER/ENTER/OP until you are in your final year, its not worth the effort they are different for every state and I think that the University entrance system is going to be changing over the next few years from the rumours I've been hearing.

For everyone who is going to go to uni contact the universities, they have all the information you will need

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