EC ENGR 183DA
Design of Robotic Systems I
Description: Lecture, four hours; laboratory, two hours; outside study, six hours. Requisite: course 102. Recommended: courses 141, 142. Course 183DA is requisite to 183DB. Limited to senior Electrical Engineering majors. Topics in robotic design include integrated electromechanical design, design for manufacturing (DFM), design software, and design automation. Topics in robotic manufacturing include materials, sensors and actuators, programming, and rapid prototyping. Topics in control include manipulation, motion and path planning, learning and adaptation, and human-robot interaction. Additional topics may include distributed and multi-robot systems, bio-inspired robotics, project management, and societal implications. Open-ended projects vary annually. Student teams create and analyze robotic systems for various applications. Oral and written presentation of project results. In Progress grading (credit to be given only on completion of course 183DB).
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Winter 2022 - Welcome to emotional damage, the class. There's so many things wrong with this class that I'm not sure where to start. For reference, I'm posting this as a MechE student, since for some reason this class is combined with the EE capstone. The capstone project is the dumbest fucking thing ever. For an entire quarter all they had us do was market research and product development, with a ridiculous amount of unnecessary work. They had us come up with NINE ideas for projects which all had to address similar things and search for scientific papers and market research for each one. The way it was set up though, they wouldn’t accept any specific concepts until halfway through the quarter, forcing us to go into extreme detail on slightly different technologies and applications concurrently without being able to finalize an actual design. This ended up with nobody having a project that they wanted or enjoyed, since all we would be doing was researching technologies and applications that were far beyond the scope of a college level project. We had to do a presentation EVERY FUCKING WEEK on the market research, doing shit like giving market pitches and presenting to investors. This entire past quarter was basically a business class for our engineering capstone. The instructors can eat my entire ass for the way they organized the class. For some reason, this EE capstone is combined with our MAE capstone with Prof. Jacob Rosen, another extremely poorly rated instructor. We have 9-person groups split between MAE and EE students with different sections that don’t align, forcing us to spend even more time outside of class to get any project work done. During the sections that don’t align, we basically wasted our time listening to lectures from TAs on topics that we’ve already learned in other classes and had zero relevance to what we were currently doing for the project, leaving us with 2/6 class hours to actually get some work done. They attempted to have us work on a separate lab involving a mini wood-bot, which they dropped halfway through the quarter probably realizing how pointless it was. The professors have absolutely zero respect for their students’ time. They give very little notice for the actual requirements for our weekly presentations, forcing us to work the day before to grind on it. One week they released the guidelines at 7pm the day before it was due, when they literally spent class the day before talking about geometric tolerances (yet another topic that we’re not using and should have already learned before). On the day that I’m posting this review, they had us show up to the first section and wait 15 minutes before telling us that they had nothing planned for the entire day, when half our group commuted an hour to get there. They don’t bother communicating with students in a timely manner, and didn’t even bother announcing that both sections were canceled. TLDR: Fuck you, you can eat my entire fucking dick for the way you’re ruining these last two quarters.
Winter 2022 - Welcome to emotional damage, the class. There's so many things wrong with this class that I'm not sure where to start. For reference, I'm posting this as a MechE student, since for some reason this class is combined with the EE capstone. The capstone project is the dumbest fucking thing ever. For an entire quarter all they had us do was market research and product development, with a ridiculous amount of unnecessary work. They had us come up with NINE ideas for projects which all had to address similar things and search for scientific papers and market research for each one. The way it was set up though, they wouldn’t accept any specific concepts until halfway through the quarter, forcing us to go into extreme detail on slightly different technologies and applications concurrently without being able to finalize an actual design. This ended up with nobody having a project that they wanted or enjoyed, since all we would be doing was researching technologies and applications that were far beyond the scope of a college level project. We had to do a presentation EVERY FUCKING WEEK on the market research, doing shit like giving market pitches and presenting to investors. This entire past quarter was basically a business class for our engineering capstone. The instructors can eat my entire ass for the way they organized the class. For some reason, this EE capstone is combined with our MAE capstone with Prof. Jacob Rosen, another extremely poorly rated instructor. We have 9-person groups split between MAE and EE students with different sections that don’t align, forcing us to spend even more time outside of class to get any project work done. During the sections that don’t align, we basically wasted our time listening to lectures from TAs on topics that we’ve already learned in other classes and had zero relevance to what we were currently doing for the project, leaving us with 2/6 class hours to actually get some work done. They attempted to have us work on a separate lab involving a mini wood-bot, which they dropped halfway through the quarter probably realizing how pointless it was. The professors have absolutely zero respect for their students’ time. They give very little notice for the actual requirements for our weekly presentations, forcing us to work the day before to grind on it. One week they released the guidelines at 7pm the day before it was due, when they literally spent class the day before talking about geometric tolerances (yet another topic that we’re not using and should have already learned before). On the day that I’m posting this review, they had us show up to the first section and wait 15 minutes before telling us that they had nothing planned for the entire day, when half our group commuted an hour to get there. They don’t bother communicating with students in a timely manner, and didn’t even bother announcing that both sections were canceled. TLDR: Fuck you, you can eat my entire fucking dick for the way you’re ruining these last two quarters.
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