advice for someone about to study robotics at uni 2017

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hey guys!

going uni but i need as much advice from the experts (anyone) as possible.

want to study robotics (mechatronics) but what should i know first.

the things that are on my mind most are:

-> how to pay student loan quicker

-> how will I make sure what I learn is up-to-date and wont expire the time i leave

-> should i go what is the difference between charted and PhD (what is higher)

-> how did YOU guys/gals get into the engineering world!

thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

dougw · Answer

Robotics requires many disciplines such as electronics, mechanics and software. Although you can specialize in one discipline, it is extremely useful to be knowledgeable in all three of these disciplines. The demand for software is larger than hardware and always will be (because each piece of hardware can have numerous software applications) but you will be far more successful in robotics if you also understand the hardware.

I skipped a couple of years of high school to jump into engineering at university, but I wouldn't recommend this - it put me at a disadvantage. It is much better to get a head start and learn the material before your classmates.

djfraz · Answer

Assuming you are in the UK, Your Student Loan is taken from your salary every month at a rate determined by the current rate of interest. so there isn't a quick way to pay back. It's only about one or two percent though, you won't even notice it. There is a chance in any discipline that anything you learn will be outdated within a couple years, but there is a lot which is the groundwork for most theories and new technologies. We still use binary for just about everything in digital electronics. The other thing is that the majority of university teaching staff are there working on their own projects, at my university one of the physics lectures I had in first year is now in the news for attempting to get energy from a black hole. So if you want to know about anything up and coming in robotics, have a sit down with your lecturers. A chartered engineer is a title that you work towards through your career and requires you to be a part of a institue, IEEE or IET, a PhD is a degree. so you can come out of uni with a PhD but you won't be a charted Engineer until you have worked in industry.

advice for someone about to study robotics at uni 2017

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