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Unread 11-08-2005, 09:14
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Re: "Familiar Looking" Table-Top Robotics Project

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Originally Posted by sanddrag
This kind of worries me that ME students aren't being introduced to the principles of design, fabrication, assembly, and contruction (mostly with regard to robotics applications) until very late in their college education.

...The stuff we all do here in FRC is sometimes even higher level than some engineering students reach in their whole college career.
Many of the things we do in FRC (and those things you listed) are not considered "higher level". Many colleges do not include these things within their core-programs, but instead offer them as electives, or through extra-curricular activities or both.

Choose your school wisely.

Sanddrag, when you hit the "higher level" stuff, you'll know it . That other stuff is just fun.
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