Master of Science in Robotics (MSR)

The Master of Science in Robotics (MSR) program uses an interdisciplinary course design to prepare students to take a leading role in the research and development of future robotics technologies and systems.
Requirements for the degree include course work, four core courses and three electives, and research that results in a thesis document and a public talk. The MSR program is designed to mimic the first two years of a PhD program to allow students interested in a PhD to gather experience and have an easy transition.
The MSR program is a doorway to a research career, preparing the candidate well for doctoral degree programs as well as research staff positions at companies and government agencies. The degree emphasizes course and research qualifications equally, ensuring that the student attains both breadth of understanding in Robotics and specialized knowledge in an area of particular interest to the student. Specialized knowledge areas are customized to student and faculty joint interests. They often include topics such as Human-Robot Interaction, Haptics, Field Robotics, Robotic Vision, Machine Learning, and more

It is each applicant’s personal responsibility to arrive with, or to acquire rapidly thereafter, basic understanding (at the level of an introductory undergraduate course) in the following areas:

• Mathematics: calculus, linear algebra, numerical analysis, probability and statistics
• Computer Science: programming, data structures, algorithms
• Physics and Engineering: mechanics, dynamics, electricity and magnetism, optics

Submission of GRE scores is a required component of the application for the MS in Robotics.