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| S-a-M-u-E-l |
| I'm a prospective electrical engineer. I want to focus on robotics as my future, and I plan to attend University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. This is supposedly the 2rd best engineering school. Anyways, can anyone give me some pointers, or maybe someone who focuses on robotics could give me a heads up about whats to come. |
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| emander |
| MOre poop than your avatar? |
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| rabbitjoker |
| quote: | Originally posted by emander
MOre poop than your avatar? |
Bwahaha! Awesome! :)
For me, electrical engineering wasn't nearly as fun/enjoyable as I thought it would be - and not due to the challenging curriculum (which was interesting/fascinating) – but more due to the fact that it didn’t have enough social interaction/problem solving for my personality type.
I think the most valuable thing I learned from the whole experience was that although I enjoyed (and excelled at) the pure sciences – my true satisfaction came from dealing with people, solving people-based problems and interacting with others in ways that felt significant (to me). |
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| BTG |
| i'm going to school for audio engineering next year :) |
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| [UK]Trancedewd© |
ive done one year of electrical/electronic engineering and its okay...the thing that surprised me is how in hard it is, i barely passed last year. if your doing robotics, you'll be doing a load of digital studies which imo is boring...to much 1010101010101's involved. The audio part of it is good - i now know what goes on inside my mixer, etc, which is cool.
the general course itself also comes in quite handy, i could now prolly fix household appliances :toothless |
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| Unknown DJ |
| quote: | Originally posted by [UK]Trancedewd©
ive done one year of electrical/electronic engineering and its okay...the thing that surprised me is how in hard it is, i barely passed last year. if your doing robotics, you'll be doing a load of digital studies which imo is boring...to much 1010101010101's involved. The audio part of it is good - i now know what goes on inside my mixer, etc, which is cool.
the general course itself also comes in quite handy, i could now prolly fix household appliances :toothless |
can you come and fix one of my monitor speakers? ;) |
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| DJAntSmith |
| quote: | Originally posted by S-a-M-u-E-l
the 2rd best engineering school. |
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turd? |
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| dukes |
| quote: | Originally posted by S-a-M-u-E-l
I'm a prospective electrical engineer. I want to focus on robotics as my future, and I plan to attend University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. This is supposedly the 2rd best engineering school. Anyways, can anyone give me some pointers, or maybe someone who focuses on robotics could give me a heads up about whats to come. |
well ive actualy got a degree in A.I and robotics.
if you want to do robotics its better to know about how the whole system works. there is more to it than just electrical/electronics. there is as much mechanical and software as anything else.
if you are sticking with the electrical/electronic side more then analogue is as important as digital as a great deal of sensors are analogue (altho you will find yourself converting them to digital). do more of the electronic system too as it can be handy. also data transfer in microcontrollers. infact microcontrollers is something you must get a basic knowlage for as most robots use them.
basicly you will (or should) get alot of practice in working as part of a team and deviding the group into sections that will focus on differant aspects of the robot (mech, elect, software).
robotics should be tought as something very hands on as its all practice. and dont worry too much about learning how to desing a certain circuit for a set sensor/actuator as 9 time out of ten some body else in the world has made the exact same thing. so just find thiers and copy it. its how every robot around the world is built.
if you want to ask anything else or know more feel free to PM me. |
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| madhattared |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJAntSmith
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turd? |
lol yeah what? for an EE degree? |
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| butterfly |
| you can also study robotic with a mechanical engineering degree. also, if you are sure about robotics, find a schools that specializes in that. |
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| S-a-M-u-E-l |
| sorry yeah, i meant 3rd best for an engineering school in the US. i said it pretty vaguely, sorry. |
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| Sly_Guy |
| Learn Control systems, signal processing, electricity and magnetism, some kinematics, and differential equasions. Logic Design and computer programming will never hurt either. But really, wait till you get to university and get a taste of it. You may change your mind in first year as to what you wanna do. I know I did. Engineeting Physics is insane, but man, the stuff i do still boggles my mind! |
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