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The Bachelor of Robotics and Mechatronic Systems Engineering with a Concentration in Electrical Engineering (BRMSE w/EE) is an undergraduate degree program that is focused on the fundamentals necessary for the design of systems and products in which electronic and computer control of mechanisms, as well as environment sensing and interpretation, are combined to achieve “intelligent” products and environments and “life-like” performance. The program explores what can be considered Cyber-Physical or “smart” systems.  Such systems are co-engineered and interacting networks of physical and embedded computational systems that are characterized by the blurring of boundaries between mechanisms, sensors, electronic communication & control, and computational systems. Examples include intelligent and autonomous transportation systems that will make travel faster and safer, mobile sensor nets that can perform detailed environmental and pollution tracking, and smart and autonomous robots that will assist with elder care, automate household tasks, undertake customize manufacturing, and explore uncharted, uncertain, or hostile terrain. These hybrid systems all involve multiple modes of operation with different software and hardware elements often distributed across multiple agents. 

The Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department has deep roots in the fundamental areas that comprise Cyber-Physical systems.  This, combined with our highly collaborative College of Engineering & Science, and our cooperative education program, which partners with the world’s leading automotive, computer and robotics industries, makes the Robotics and Mechatronic Systems Engineering with a Concentration in Electrical Engineering both highly unique and effective.  The program is structured to address hybrid-system theory and development by fusing mechanical engineering and computer science fundamentals with an electrical engineering program focused on robotics and embedded systems.

This multi-technological program underwent a successful ABET visit for accreditation as an electrical engineering degree in 2016-17 when its first students graduated. It provides students with an in-depth knowledge of engineering science and design methodology in a multidisciplinary context that includes electronics and circuits, embedded systems and controls, and software and hardware integration as well as mechanics and mechanisms.  By working with hands-on projects from the freshman through senior years, exploring a series of robotic/mechatronic, sensor, and communication systems, you combine electrical, computer, and mechanical engineering concepts with practical applications. Then, at multiple points in your four-year program, you work in industry (a co-op assignment with an engineer's salary) to apply your knowledge and build real work experience. Rather than focusing on dry theoretical topics separately, we teach you engineering theory through an integrated and applied approach in system design, so you learn how concepts work together - as they would in the "real world." Thus your education in this program helps prepare you to develop the next neural-controlled artificial limb or hybrid "green" autonomous vehicle!

Students also have team-oriented design experiences integrated throughout their curriculum. A capstone design experience, conducted in the senior year, challenges students with a sophisticated systems-level electrical engineering project that involves the development of intelligent vehicles for entry in national competitions, an assistive-technology product for a real client, or a process-related problem that draws on knowledge from a variety of topics to which they were exposed.