Academics & Curriculum

The Master of Engineering in Autonomy & Robotics is an intensive professional degree program that can be completed in one year while on campus.

The program is designed as a unique discovery experience, offering greater technical depth than is possible in an undergraduate program, while providing the tools you'll need to successfully work within multidisciplinary teams. The coursework provides opportunities to become proficient within your technical discipline at the graduate level, and the background to become an effective manager or supervisor in an autonomy and robotics field.

Students need to complete the following coursework requirements:

Minimum of 32 credit hours comprised of 16 hours of core Autonomy and Robotics coursework.
12 hours elective coursework
4 hours of professional development (capstone project)

Autonomy and Robotics Curriculum

Program Component	Hours
Core Coursework	16
ME 445 - Introduction to Robotics	4
ECE 484 - Principles of Safe Autonomy	4
CS 588 - Autonomous Vehicle System Engineering	4
Select one of the following: Control and Dynamics ECE 486 - Control Systems SE 422 - Robot Dynamics and Control Optimization AE 504 - Optimal Aerospace Systems ECE 490 - Introduction to Optimization Hardware Systems ME 451 Computer-Aided Mfg Systems Artificial Intelligence & Perception CS 440 - Artificial Intelligence CS 543 - Computer Vision ECE 544 - Topics in Signal Processing Design & Applications CS 465 - User Interface Design	4
Professional Development Course Select one of the following: ENG 573 - Capstone Project ENG 572 - Professional Practicum Other advisor-approved courses	4
Additional Coursework Electives may be selected from the course list (see below), with advisor approval. This list includes courses in Control and Dynamics, Optimization, Hardware Systems, Artificial Intelligence & Perception, and Design & Applications.	12
Total Hours A minimum of 20 credit hours must be taken from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus. A minimum of 12 500-level credit hours. ENG 572 and ENG 573 may not be used to satisfy this requirement. No courses used to fulfill any degree requirement may be taken using the "Credit/No Credit" option.	32

Course List

Autonomy & Robotics M.Eng. Elective Course List (12 credits - pick 3 courses)

# indicates that the course was not offered in 2020
* indicates that the course is also on the list of specialized core courses

Enrollment in these courses may depend on course availability.

CONTROL & DYNAMICS

Course Code	Course Name	Credit Hours
AE 554	Dynamical Systems Theory	4
AE 555	Multivariable Control Design	4
AE 556	Robust Control	4
ECE 515	Control System Theory & Design	4
ECE 486	Control Systems	4
ECE 489	Robot Dynamics & Control	4
ECE 517	Nonlinear & Adaptive Control	4
ECE 528	Analysis of Nonlinear Systems	4
ECE 553	Optimum Control Systems	4
ECE 555	Control of Stochastic Systems	4
ECE 557	Geometric Control Theory	4
ECE 568	Modeling & Control of Electromechanical Systems	4
ECE 573	Power System Control	4
ME 440	Kinematics & Dynamics of Mechanical Systems	3 or 4
ME 446	Robot Dynamics & Control	4
ME 460	Industrial Control Systems	4
ME 540	Control System Theory & Design	4
ME 561	Convex Methods in Control	4
ME 562	Robust Adaptive Control	4
SE 424	State Space Design for Control	3
SE 521	Multivariable Control Design	4
SE 525	Control of Complex Systems	4
TAM 412	Intermediate Dynamics	4
TAM 516	Dynamical Systems Theory	4

OPTIMIZATION

Course Code	Course Name	Credit Hours
AE 504	Optimal Aerospace Systems	4
ECE 490	Introduction to Optimization	3 or 4
ECE 580	Optimization by Vector Space Methods	4
IE 411	Optimization of Large Systems	3 or 4
IE 519	Combinatorial Optimization	4
IE 521	Convex Optimization	4

HARDWARE SYSTEMS

Course Code	Course Name	Credit Hours
CS 431	Embedded Systems	3 or 4
ECE 437	Sensors and Instrumentation	3
ME 451	Computer-Aided Manufacturing Systems	3 or 4
ME 452	Numerical Control of Manufacturing Processes	3 or 4
ME 455	Micromanufacturing Process & Automation	3 or 4
ME 461	Computer Control of Mechanical Systems	3 or 4
ME 541	Control of Machine Systems	4
SE 420	Digital Control Systems	4
SE 423	Mechatronics	3

SOFTWARE SYSTEMS

Course Code	Course Name	Credit Hours
CS 424	Real-Time Systems	3 or 4
CS 425	Distributed Systems	3 or 4
CS 427	Software Engineering I	3 or 4
CS 428	Software Engineering II	3 or 4
CS 438	Communication Networks	3 or 4
CS 461	Computer Security I	4
CS 476	Program Verification	3 or 4
CS 477	Formal Software Development Methods	3 or 4
CS 483	Applied Parallel Programming	4
CS 484	Parallel Programming	3 or 4

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & PERCEPTION

Course Code	Course Name	Credit Hours
CS 440	Artificial Intelligence	3 or 4
CS 446	Machine Learning	3 or 4
CS 447	Natural Language Processing	3 or 4
CS 543	Computer Vision	4
CS 546	Advanced Topics in Natural Language Processing	4
ECE 534	Random Processes	4
ECE 543	Statistical Learning Theory	4
ECE 561	Detection & Estimation Theory	4
ECE 566	Computational Inference and Learning	4
IE 534	Deep Learning	4
SE 524	Data-Based Systems Modeling	4

DESIGN & APPLICATIONS

Course Code	Course Name	Credit Hours
CS 465	User Interface Design	3 or 4
CS 565	Human-Computer Interaction	4
SE 400	Engineering Law	3 or 4

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