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Ashwin Dani, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, sits next to a life size robot called Baxter in his lab. (Sean Flynn\/UConn Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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By: Eli Freund, Editorial Communications Manager, UConn School of Engineering\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The University of Connecticut Board of Trustees has approved a new undergraduate major in Robotics Engineering open\u00a0 to prospective and existing students starting in Fall 2022.\u00a0 UConn will be one of only two U.S. research-active universities to offer a major in Robotics Engineering.\u00a0 The major is focused on the design, construction, and operation of robots.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While popular fiction brings to mind talking and walking machines, a broader definition of a robot is a machine that is capable of autonomously carrying out complex actions.\u00a0 Robotics is a growing field that has applications in a number of commercial areas including healthcare, logistics, manufacturing, maintenance, surveillance, amongst others.<\/p>\n

The robotics engineering major will have an interdisciplinary curriculum that integrates the disciplines of electrical engineering, computer engineering, mechanical engineering, and computer science.\u00a0 Students will get hands-on experiences in building small-scale robots and learning techniques to control and automate these robots in a variety of settings.\u00a0 The skill set developed as a robotics engineer opens up a wide variety of career opportunities in various fields including electric machines, autonomous control, embedded systems, and artificial intelligence which are all relevant in a number of industries.\u00a0 Robotics is anticipated to see significant growth in employment over the next decade.\u00a0 Data \u00a0from the Bureau of Labor Statistics pegs robotics engineering as seeing\u00a0 a nine percent growth in jobs from 2016 to 2026, and PayScale.com projects an average salary for robotics engineers of about $80,000 a year.<\/p>\n

UConn Engineering has established itself as a leader in robotics research with participation from several faculty in the ECE, ME, and CSE departments.\u00a0 Highlights include research in autonomous drones, path planning, human robot collaboration, cyborg insects, and others.\u00a0 UConn is also an active member of the Advanced Robotics in Manufacturing Institute.<\/p>\n

For more information on the program, please contact ECE Department Head John Chandy at john.chandy@uconn.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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