{"id":79378,"date":"2020-03-13T15:52:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T19:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/?page_id=79378"},"modified":"2025-02-05T08:54:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T13:54:49","slug":"ms-in-robotics-autonomous-systems","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/eng\/programs\/mechanical-engineering\/ms-in-robotics-autonomous-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"MS in Robotics &#038; Autonomous Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The MS in Robotics &amp; Autonomous Systems (R&amp;AS) program is designed to prepare students for technically demanding careers in a variety of areas in industry as well as for post-master\u2019s graduate studies in robotics, autonomous systems, or related fields.<\/p>\n<h2>Curriculum<\/h2>\n<p>The MS in Robotics &amp; Autonomous Systems curriculum requires a minimum of 32 graduate-level units (500-level or above courses). Course units can only be used to fulfill the program requirements if the student receives a grade of C or better in the course. To graduate, a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.0 (B) must be attained in the set of courses used to satisfy the program requirements for the degree.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Structured course requirements:<\/strong> The 32 units must be selected as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-gc-list-depth=\"1\" data-gc-list-style=\"bullet\">One required course (4 units): ENG EK 505 Introduction to Robotics<\/li>\n<li data-gc-list-depth=\"1\" data-gc-list-style=\"bullet\">Four robotics core courses (16 units) selected from a list and satisfying the requirements of Control, Design, Perception, and Machine Learning (one course in each designated area).<\/li>\n<li data-gc-list-depth=\"1\" data-gc-list-style=\"bullet\">Three technical electives (12 units) may be any engineering\/science electives at the 500 level or above (with no more than one course from the approved list of engineering management courses).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MS in Robotics &amp; Autonomous Systems (R&amp;AS) program is designed to prepare students for technically demanding careers in a variety of areas in industry as well as for post-master\u2019s graduate studies in robotics, autonomous systems, or related fields. Curriculum The MS in Robotics &amp; Autonomous Systems curriculum requires a minimum of 32 graduate-level units [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1859,"featured_media":0,"parent":510,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1859"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79378"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96820,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79378\/revisions\/96820"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}