NRT-LEAD Program Highlighted by WSU Insider

WSU celebrated the success of the newly funded NRT-LEAD program in a WSU Insider story, which read in part:

“A new generation of engineers at Washington State University will learn not only how to build better robots but also how to make them work better with, and for, humans — thanks in part to a $3 million NSF grant.

The multidisciplinary WSU project, dubbed NRT‑LEAD for NextGen Robotics Traineeship in Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Adaptive Design, comes at a time when a flood of new technology including robots, autonomous systems and artificial intelligence promises to transform the workplace. The funding will advance research and help educate 52 doctoral and master’s students in engineering and science with an interdisciplinary emphasis in entrepreneurship and applied psychology.

“We want to train people who know how to design a better robot and who understand how the user will be operating it. They also need to think about how the machine will impact the community where it will be employed,” said Prashanta Dutta, WSU professor of mechanical and materials engineering and the lead principal investigator on the grant.” Click for full story.