Type | Private |
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Affiliation | Catholic, Jesuit |
Dean | Kristina Ropella [1] |
Undergraduates | 1,100 |
Postgraduates | 299 |
Location | , , United States |
Campus | Urban |
Website | marquette |
The Marquette University Opus College of Engineering is one of the primary colleges at Marquette University, located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The college oversees curricula related to the research and application of engineering and its various subfields.
The college oversees the curriculum and instruction in all of the engineering-related majors offered by the university. The Opus College of Engineering offers Bachelor's, Master's and Ph.D. degrees across seven majors. [2] Within the college are four academic departments:
In 2011, the college opened a new facility, Engineering Hall, to house laboratories. [3]
The college is home to a major interdisciplinary machine shop and hands-on work center, called the Discovery Learning Laboratory, [2] as well as the Marquette University Humanoid Engineering & Intelligent Robotics Lab. Researchers in the college have built a visualization lab to create 3D-interactive exhibits and activities. [4]
Projects conducted by the college range from human-powered nebulizers [5] to designing humanoid robots that help combat childhood obesity. [6] A student team in the college is building a CubeSat that they will launch into space with NASA in 2016 or 2017. [7]
In 2012, US News and World Report ranked the college's biomedical engineering program at 51st among all programs nationwide. [8] The college as a whole is ranked as the top Jesuit-affiliated college of engineering in the United States. [9]
Marquette University is a private Jesuit research university in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Established by the Society of Jesus as Marquette College on August 28, 1881, it was founded by John Martin Henni, the first Bishop of the diocese of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Robot learning is a research field at the intersection of machine learning and robotics. It studies techniques allowing a robot to acquire novel skills or adapt to its environment through learning algorithms. The embodiment of the robot, situated in a physical embedding, provides at the same time specific difficulties and opportunities for guiding the learning process.
Higher education in Milwaukee, Wisconsin is dominated by the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee on the East Side and Marquette University, located near the city's center. Between no fewer than eleven higher education institutions, the city has a collective, full-time, degree seeking college student population exceeding approximately 70,000, the largest in Wisconsin. A January 2000 study from McGill University ranked Milwaukee 6th in a list of U.S. and Canadian cities with the highest number of college students per capita.
The Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM@GT) is an interdisciplinary research unit at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The center was launched May, 2006, and consists of researchers from the School of Interactive Computing in the College of Computing, College of Engineering, and Georgia Tech Research Institute. IRIM@GT currently offers a Ph.D. program in robotics, the first truly multi-disciplinary program in the country after the one of Carnegie Mellon University.
The Marquette University School of Dentistry is the dental school of Marquette University. It is located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. Formerly the Dental Department of the Milwaukee Medical College (MMC), the school opened on September 26, 1894. It is the only dental school in Wisconsin.
John Charles McAdams was an American associate professor of political science at Marquette University. McAdams taught courses on American politics and public policy, voter behavior, and the John F. Kennedy assassination; he ran a website on the assassination and has published a book on the subject, JFK Assassination Logic: How to Think about Claims of Conspiracy (2011). He described himself as "a debunker by temperament". McAdams was suspended by Marquette in 2014 for publicly criticizing a graduate student. McAdams filed suit for breach of contract and in 2018 the Wisconsin Supreme Court ordered the university to reinstate him.
Michael R. Lovell is an American engineer and academic administrator, currently serving as President of Marquette University. Lovell assumed office on July 1, 2014.
DARwIn-OP is a miniature-humanoid robot platform developed and manufactured by Korean robot manufacturer Robotis in collaboration with Virginia Tech, Purdue University, and University of Pennsylvania. It is also supported by a $1.2 million NSF grant. DARwIn-OP has twenty degrees of freedom, each controlled by a DYNAMIXEL MX-28T servo motor.
The Marquette University College of Business Administration is one of the primary colleges at Marquette University, located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with additional off-campus graduate classrooms in Waukesha and Kohler, Wisconsin.
The J. William & Mary Diederich College of Communication is one of the primary colleges at Marquette University, located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The college is named for J. William Diederich, a former executive at Landmark Media Enterprises, and his wife, Mary.
The Marquette University College of Nursing is one of the constituent colleges at Marquette University, located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Its programs and curricula are accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, the Accreditation Commission for Midwifery Education of the American College of Nurse-Midwives, the NCACSS and the Wisconsin State Board of Nursing.
The Marquette University College of Health Sciences is one of the primary colleges at Marquette University, located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The college oversees curricula related to the research and medical treatment of the human body.
The Marquette University College of Education is one of the primary colleges at Marquette University, located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The college oversees curricula related to the training of current and future educators, offering both undergraduate- and graduate-level courses and degrees.
The Helen Way Klingler College of Arts and Sciences is one of the primary colleges at Marquette University, located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The college oversees liberal arts programs and offer both undergraduate- and graduate-level courses and degrees. It is the largest of Marquette's 11 colleges by enrollment, with over 2,700 students.
The Marquette University College of Professional Studies is one of the 11 constituent colleges at Marquette University, located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The college offers classes designed for working adults, and it offers undergraduate and graduate degrees as well as graduate certificates. It also runs a community leadership training program for Milwaukee-area professionals called Future Milwaukee.
The Graduate School is one of the primary colleges at Marquette University, located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The college oversees an array of liberal arts, interdisciplinary, and applied and physical sciences programs at the graduate level, offering master's and doctoral degrees as well as graduate certificates. The Graduate School's offices are housed within Holthusen Hall, near the center of Marquette's campus.
The Marquette University Humanoid Engineering & Intelligent Robotics (HEIR) Lab is a robotics lab in Marquette University's College of Engineering.
Stephen E. Levinson is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), leader of the Language Acquisition and Robotics Lab at UIUC, and a full-time faculty member of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at UIUC. He works on speech synthesis, acquisition and recognition and the development of anthropomorphic robots.
Andrew B. Williams is an American academic in the field of engineering. He is the Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the University of Kansas, and the Charles E. and Mary Jane Spahr Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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