Place, Dates & Organisers	Other Highlights
Place: Ekaterinburg, Russia Dates: 18 March 2012 to 28 March 2012 Season: spring12 Organised by: BEST Group Ekaterinburg University: Ural State University of Railway Transport	Type: BEST Course on Technology Fee: 40.0 euro. Convert to BGN Bulgaria Leva HRK Croatia Kuna CSK Czech Republic Koruna EUR Euro DKK Denmark Kroner EEK Estonia Kroon HUF Hungary Forint ISK Iceland Kronur LVL Latvia Lat LTL Lithuania Litas MKD Macedonia (FYR) Denar NOK Norway Kroner PLZ Poland Zloty RON Romania Leu RSD Serbia Dinar RUR Russia Rubles SKK Slovakia Koruna SEK Sweden Krona CHF Switzerland Francs TRL Turkey Liras UAH Ukraine Hryvna GBP United Kingdom Pounds USD United States Dollars Depending on the country of your university, the amount of fee can be lower. [Read more] Application until: 11 Dec 2011 at 23:00 CET Application deadline has passed.
Academic Highlights
Participation requirements: Prior knowledge required (Basic programming skills and basic knowledge on robot designing. ) Academic complexity: Basic [Read more] Working time: 28 hours (estimated)

General description

Have you ever dreamt in your childhood to have a biiiig Robot to boast it to your friends? Have you ever wished a Robot makes all the homework so you could not to waste time on it? Or have you ever wanted to see Robots fight?

It's only possible in movies or far-far future, you say? Pfff!!!!! We say NO WAY! YOU can make this future much closer this spring (which is actually still winter in Russia :D trolololo)! Build the future!

The Robot time has come!!!

Here, in the country of Robo-bears dancing Kalinka-Malinka, in the land of Robo-babushkas singing Katusha, in the Amazing city of Ekaterinburg you can turn your dreams into reality! You can become the New age Engineer of Robot Desing!!!

Throw all doubts away - Russia waits for YOU!

Academic information

• Fields of activity: Computer Engineering , Computer Science/Automatic Control/Informatics , Control Engineering/Systems engineering , Electrical/Electromechanical Engineering , Electronic/Electrotechnical Engineering , Machine & Instrument engineering/Design , Mechanical Engineering , Mechatronics
• Content and topics: Lectures on Mechatronics, robotic systems, programming of robots and controllers, artificial intelligence, fuzzy logic; practice on robot constructing and virtual prototyping.
• Learning goals and objectives: Efficiency of robotic system design and programming; its usage for solving different kind of problems in any fields; demonstration of Russian implication to Mechatronics industry.
• Examination type: Presentation of final project
• Number of ECTS credits issued: None [Read more]

Information for applicants

• Selection criteria for participants: Motivation letter, answers to the questions

Practical arrangements

All of these are covered by the event fee.

• Lodging during the event: Dormitory next to the university
• Food during the event: 3 meals per day, at least 2 warm meals
• Transportation during the event: Bus, public transport, train

More information

For more information about this event, check out the following links (these links lead to outside this website - if they turn out to be unavailable, please try again later):

• Event website: http://nerd.gixx.ru/
• Event schedule: http://nerd.gixx.ru/schedule
• Event survival guide: http://nerd.gixx.ru/guide