Colleges for Robotics search

ChoatieMom
Fri, 22 Apr 2022 19:43:24 +0000

Our son, who also graduated from a New England boarding school, received a deep robotics education as his EE concentration at West Point. The lab facilities, research opportunities, and robotics brain trust there are outstanding*. Much of what happens in those labs is classified, but our son reports that Army has some of the best robotic “toys.” West Point has an affiliation with MIT Lincoln labs and provides graduate fellowships for robotic and other engineering research post commissioning. And, you can’t beat the price.

I know this doesn’t help if serving as an officer is not something you’d consider, but I throw it out there because many people don’t realize the strength of the service academy engineering programs. They compete with the best.

*Brag alert: Our son’s robotics research paper earned second place at the IEEE MIT Undergraduate Research and Technology Conference his junior year, and his West Point mentor at the time was a former president of the IEEE. The robotics program at West Point is topnotch.

(ETA: Don’t know why the word “research” becomes a hyperlink to a random site.)