{"144281":{"#nid":"144281","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Egerstedt among First Georgia Tech Faculty to Take Part in Coursera","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMagnus Egerstedt is among five faculty members from the Georgia Institute of Technology teaching the first courses offered by Georgia Tech on Coursera. A professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Dr. Egerstedt will teach \u201cControl of Mobile Robots,\u201d which is scheduled to be taught for the first time in January 2013.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis course investigates how to make mobile robots move in effective, safe, and predictable ways. The basic tool for achieving these actions is \u201ccontrol theory,\u201d which deals with how dynamical systems\u2013systems whose behaviors change over time\u2013can be effectively influenced. With mobile robots as the target application, the course will cover the following tasks: (1) how to make teams of wheeled ground robots avoid collisions while reaching target locations; \u0026nbsp;(2) how to make aerial, quadrotor robots follow paths in the presence of severe disturbances such as wind and faulty or missing GPS readings; and (3) how to make bipedal, humanoid robots walk. Upon completion of this course, students will receive a Certificate of Completion from the Georgia Tech Center for 21\u003Csup\u003Est\u003C\/sup\u003E Century Universities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELast month, Georgia Tech signed an agreement with Coursera to put their web-based courses online and create new opportunities in the classroom. Dr. Egerstedt said that the Georgia Tech Coursera effort attracted him because he was both excited and curious about having an educational impact that stretches far beyond what he could accomplish in a traditional classroom.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Egerstedt was also motivated to participate in Coursera because he thinks higher education is increasingly moving toward using technology to make classes and faculty expertise more available to students and lifelong learners worldwide. And indeed, to date, Coursera has seen more than 680,000 students from 190 countries and more than 1.55 million course enrollments across its 43 courses.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cCoursera provides a platform that allows me to scale up my classes, so that they reach thousands of people\u2013in essence having more students in one single class than what I have had in total over my entire career as an educator,\u201d Dr. Egerstedt said. \u201cI also wanted to see for myself what it would be like to teach a massively large-scale, on-line class.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuring the spring 2013 semester, he will also teach a course on campus that is very similar to Control of Mobile Robots. He hopes to leverage it in a way that allows him to do more hands-on experiments and projects in the classroom while some of the technical content is outsourced to the Coursera course that he is teaching that same term.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAn award-winning teacher with honors from both Georgia Tech and Harvard University, Dr. Egerstedt has been on the ECE faculty since 2001 and is the director of the Georgia Robotics and Intelligent Systems Laboratory. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to Dr. Egerstedt\u2019s course, Georgia Tech will offer Computational Photography, Computational Investing, Energy 101, and Fundamentals of Online Education: Planning and Education. 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