Utilizing the constructing on Fort Moore will permit Columbus State the room for college students to check and fly floor and air robotic programs—extra generally known as drones—in a GPS-denied setting. The extra house additionally will permit college students and college to check and achieve expertise working a 16-camera motion-capture and 3D monitoring system value $75,000.
COLUMBUS, Georgia — Columbus State College has signed an settlement with Columbus-based U.S. Military Fort Moore that may permit the college to develop its Robotics Engineering program’s tutorial and analysis capabilities right into a 25,000-square-foot constructing on the submit.
Utilizing the constructing on Fort Moore will permit Columbus State the room for college students to check and fly floor and air robotic programs—extra generally known as drones—in a GPS-denied setting. The extra house additionally will permit college students and college to check and achieve expertise working a 16-camera motion-capture and 3D monitoring system value $75,000.
“Fort Moore has been a steadfast accomplice with our Robotics Engineering program at Columbus State since its inception in 2019,” defined Dr. Mahmut Reyhanoglu, a professor of robotics engineering and this system’s director. “This extension of that partnership will present us the room to lastly take a look at the gear now we have already acquired and provides us the house to supply actual hands-on experiences to our college students and researchers.”
Partnering with Fort Moore’s Maneuver Battle Lab was a pure extension of the lab’s mission to make use of robotics expertise to maintain America’s troopers safer whereas equipping them to be extra environment friendly of their jobs.
“The Maneuver Battle Lab is extraordinarily completely satisfied to staff with Columbus State’s Robotics Engineering program,” mentioned Chris Willis, director of Fort Moore’s Maneuver Battle Lab. “This partnership permits us to reveal CSU college students to the Military’s robotics wants, and it additionally permits us to doubtlessly serve army dependents, veterans, and our local people at giant.”
Reyhanoglu expects to have every little thing prepared within the new house by August. He additionally mentioned this collaboration is a part of his and the Faculty of Letters & Sciences’ long-term imaginative and prescient of a joint Robotics Innovation Heart at Fort Moore, the place the college can educate lessons on the submit and work alongside its army companions for college students’ studying, experimenting and analysis.
ABOUT THE ROBOTICS ENGINEERING PROGRAM
Since their inception, each the undergraduate and graduate Robotics Engineering applications have grown exponentially: the bachelor’s program tenfold since its launch in 2019, and the grasp’s program threefold since 2021. Reyhanoglu expects this system’s undergraduate enrollment to climb to 100 college students and graduate enrollment to 30 grasp’s diploma college students throughout the subsequent 5 years.
Primarily based within the Faculty of Letters & Sciences’ Division of Earth & House Sciences, Columbus State’s program hosts Georgia’s solely bachelor’s and grasp’s diploma applications in robotics engineering. At Columbus State, college students put together for careers in robotics, automation, {hardware} growth, software program growth and machine studying. Along with conventional bachelor’s and grasp of science levels in robotics engineering, its accelerated Robotics Engineering program permits distinctive college students to finish each a bachelor’s and grasp’s levels in 5 years.
The college’s suite of robotics engineering choices additionally consists of an affiliate of science diploma in engineering research and a seven-course, 21-credit-hour robotics certificates program open to all Columbus State college students and others searching for to develop their information within the subject.
For extra details about the robotics applications at CSU, go to the Robotics Engineering web site.