Current Upperclassman at Carnegie Mellon: ASK ME ANYTHING!

Happytimes2001
Tue, 22 Dec 2020 20:23:12 +0000

Thanks for your detailed response. Good to hear that it’s not TA’s teaching. Also, yes, undergraduate robotics courses should ideally be hands on. One cannot really learn robotics otherwise. I’ll tell my kid about this. We knew CMU was good for robotics but wasn’t sure how double majoring worked.
My kid sees the 20-30 hours for a class as a normal robotics type thing. Hanging out and figuring out. Unlike some other majors but I think most kids who like robotics are “wired” this way. Also, you mentioned that the basic courses average out and get everyone up to speed. That doesn’t sound great to a kid whose done advanced things for a long time. But kids could ideally use that time to focus on the second major or go deeper. I was thinking more that some schools might have a more rigid curriculum around very basic stuff and that’s certainly not of interest. There is one school that works that way and would not be interesting to my kid. The courses you linked to at CMU looked pretty robust according to my spouse. I also like that a student can chose courses which are of interest to them since robotics is a vast field.
I know that CMU is well known in robotics. I’m sure you will have lots of options. Thank you for your insight!