Name: Spring 2024 GRASP on Robotics: Jessy Grizzle, University of Michigan, “Michigan’s Robotics Department and Undergrad Curriculum – ‘Non c’è scommessa più persa di quella che non giocherò’ (There’s no bet more lost than the one I won’t even play)” — Ora by Jovanotti
Start: 2024-04-05T10:30:00-04:00
End: 2024-04-05T11:45:00-04:00
Location: Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall

Spring 2024 GRASP on Robotics: Jessy Grizzle, University of Michigan, “Michigan’s Robotics Department and Undergrad Curriculum – ‘Non c’è scommessa più persa di quella che non giocherò’ (There’s no bet more lost than the one I won’t even play)” — Ora by Jovanotti

April 5, 2024 at 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM

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Date: April 5, 2024

Time: 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM

Organizer

General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab

Email: grasplab@seas.upenn.edu

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Venue

Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street
Philadelphia
PA 19104 Google Map

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This is a hybrid event with in-person attendance in Wu and Chen and virtual attendance on Zoom.

ABSTRACT

After 39 years as a faculty member with continuous NSF support, the speaker has graduated his last PhD students, closed his lab, and turned 100% to teaching. From June 2016 through June 2021, he led Michigan’s Robotics Institute (aka, he took that bet) and transformed it into a full-fledged department with UG, MS, and PhD degrees. The talk will focus on the undergraduate program and its highly innovative math sequence: ROB 101 Computational Linear Algebra has already taught over 800 Michigan engineers, 90 HBCU students, and a handful of HS students; and ROB 201 Calculus for the Modern Engineer, which will be piloted in Fall 2024. Both courses are focused on equity because, while Talent is Uniformly Distributed, Opportunity is Not!