SeanKetring
commented
9 years ago Dr. Chow, or Carlson might have some helpful insight.
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 10:00 PM, Ahmed Samara notifications@github.com wrote:
This summer, we should look at making the robotics competition a special topics class in a similar vane to the fire fighting drone challenge.
During the meeting today, we established that most people would prefer for the robotics team to become a special topics class, which would be a good idea because we could have more than 4 people on the team getting credit for it, and it would be a less drastic change in the teams dynamic.
The main obstacle to this is finding a professor to be involved with it, because we'd need an actual teacher as opposed to just Dr.Guptas approval and someone to be an adviser.
To start with, we should start asking professors about what the actual process for establishing a special topics class is. A list of professors we could talk to for more information are:
Sources for info:
Dr.Sichitu (Successfully ran Fire fighting drones challenge for the last few semesters)
Dr.Lenardi (She's our faculty adviser, can provide advice and/or connections to candidates).
Senior design faculty: (they know us and have a somewhat positive opinion of us probably)
Possible people to ask to be advisers:
Dr.Livingston: Possible adviser pending on him agreeing. He's a new professor who taught ECE 455. I think he'd be a good candidate because despite his inexperience as a lecturer, he does seem like a good roboticist. Plus, a lot of the things that I saw he was working on for the class and the lab (like the robot arm, and a CLI for that robot arm), are things that we've worked on as well, so he could benefit from the class just as much as we could.
Dr.Lobaton
idk who else.
— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/IEEERobotics/bot2014/issues/349.
Thank you, and have a good day! Sean Ketring
Electrical Engineering Undergraduate
AhmedSamara
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This summer, we should look at making the robotics competition a special topics class in a similar vane to the fire fighting drone challenge.
During the meeting today, we established that most people would prefer for the robotics team to become a special topics class, which would be a good idea because we could have more than 4 people on the team getting credit for it, and it would be a less drastic change in the teams dynamic.
The main obstacle to this is finding a professor to be involved with it, because we'd need an actual teacher as opposed to just Dr.Guptas approval and someone to be an adviser.
To start with, we should start asking professors about what the actual process for establishing a special topics class is. A list of professors we could talk to for more information are:
Sources for info:
Dr.Sichitu (Successfully ran Fire fighting drones challenge for the last few semesters)
Dr.Lenardi (She's our faculty adviser, can provide advice and/or connections to candidates).
Senior design faculty: (they know us and have a somewhat positive opinion of us probably)
Possible people to ask to be advisers:
Dr.Livingston: Possible adviser pending on him agreeing. He's a new professor who taught ECE 455. I think he'd be a good candidate because despite his inexperience as a lecturer, he does seem like a good roboticist. Plus, a lot of the things that I saw he was working on for the class and the lab (like the robot arm, and a CLI for that robot arm), are things that we've worked on as well, so he could benefit from the class just as much as we could.
Dr.Lobaton
idk who else.