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  <Title>Encouraging Academic Integrity: Discussion of Cheating, Grading, and Course-Level Policies in the Era of AI</Title>
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    <Title>Ramana Vinjamuri co-authors book on embedded systems and robotics</Title>
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          <div class="html-content"><span><h3><span>Introduction to Embedded Systems and Robotics, A Practical Guide</span><br></h3><h4><span>Nayan Kakoty, Rupam Goswami and Ramana Vinjamuri</span></h4><p><span><br></span></p><p><span>UMBC CSEE professor </span><a href="https://www.csee.umbc.edu/ramana-vinjamuri/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><span><strong>Ramana Vinjamuri</strong></span></a><span> is one of the authors of a new book, </span><a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-73098-6" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><span><strong>Introduction to Embedded Systems and Robotics</strong></span></a><span><strong>,</strong> published by Springer in December 2024. It is a technical guide to the fundamentals of embedded systems and robotics and their application to practical problems.</span></p><p><span>The book is designed to be appropriate for both undergraduate and graduate students and serve as a practical guide for doing robotics projects in their final semesters. </span><span>It is written to cover the “ABC of embedded systems and robotics: A for acquiring the concepts, B for building robotic systems, and C for creating solutions.” It:</span></p><ul><li><span>Includes solved problems at the end of each chapter</span></li><li><span>Features projects, such as developing a robotic hand and developing a biomimetic prosthetic finger</span></li><li><span>Introduces robotics to undergraduate and graduate scholars using plain language and with the aid of practical problems</span></li></ul></span>
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