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Re: What to study
I would decide on which part of the robotic prosthetic you want to work on - that would be a good first step.
Let's face it - no one person designs a robotic prosthetic. It's going to be a large team of people, and each individual will have a highly specialized task (just like (most likely) no one person designed your FIRST robot: you had someone for the drive system, someone for the appendage, someone for subsystem X, someone for the wiring, someone for the software, etc.).
Do you want to do electrical, mechanical, software, control algorithms, etc.?
Once you decide on that, that will dictate your major and concentration.
Once you decide on a major and concentration, focus your elective credits on the other subjects that will help you land a job in robotic prosthtics. Let's say you decide to focus on the mechanical side. Since there will be a lot of dynamics and automatic control in a robotic prosthesis- it would be a good idea to take some elective classes in those areas. If you decide on electrical, it would probably be a good idea to have some knowledge of mechanical dynamic systems. Etc.
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