University Of Delaware: Robotic Masters

Press release from the University of Delaware:

Article by Adam Thomas

September 16, 2021

UD students conduct research with robot boats for industry partner

For students interested in a career in the robotics industry, it is important to have something unique on their resumes to help them stand out from the thousands of students across the country who graduate with a specialization in robotics every year.

To help with this, the University of Delaware offers an interdisciplinary Master of Science in Robotics (MSR) program that allows their students to work in state-of-the-art facilities and research labs, while also giving them critical hands-on learning experiences with real-world robotics companies.

For four recent students — Owen Li, Andrew Wood, Yash Sharad Evalekar, and Varun Parindra Kadakia — enrolled in the MSR program that hands-on work took the form of a semester-long internship with Seafloor Systems Inc., where they worked to install a mission planning system on one of the company’s EchoBoats, an unmanned surface vessel used for hydrographic surveying.

Panagiotis Artemiadis, associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and graduate program director for the MSR program, said that there is a great need for these kinds of programs that have their students specialize in the field of robotics and controls engineering. While there is a great need, there are only around 20 programs like this in the United States.

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