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Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) Online has announced another slew of tech-related university courses, accelerating its plan to tackle the impending skills shortage Australia is expected to face.
The new courses come courtesy of a partnership with Silicon Valley-based global education startup Udacity, which works with the likes of Google, Facebook, Mercedes-Benz, and Nvidia to close talent gaps.
This is the first time it has partnered with a university, however.
According to RMIT Online, the courses will address skills shortages in emerging tech, robotics, engineering, and artificial intelligence fields through short courses that bring a “Silicon Valley mindset to Australia’s workforce”.
RMIT Online CEO Helen Souness said Australia is facing a growing skills shortage across many design and technology fields and believes universities must lead the way.
“We know that student and employer needs have profoundly changed, and through this portfolio of online courses, we’re looking at new ways to educate professionals beyond traditional degrees or master qualifications,” she told ZDNet.
“Economic changes through automation and globalisation are transforming business models and the evolving workforce is a reality we are all grappling with. There is so much economic and personal opportunity in areas of new technology.”
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The new courses offered through the partnership will include: Introduction to self driving cars engineering, robotics software, AI programming with Python, and front-end web developer.
The introduction to self driving cars engineering course will expose students to the tools that are vital for self-driving car engineers, with Souness explaining they’ll learn how a computer sees an image and how to use machines to teach a computer to identify images programmatically.
Students will practice how to write code for self-driving cars, and plan and visualise the trajectory for it using the likes of Bayesian thinking, C++, algorithmic thinking, and object-oriented programming, mentored by locals and experts and connected to industry partners from Holden, Kapsch, Mtaiq, and ITS.
The robotics software course will give students hands-on experience in developing robotics solutions such as ROS, kinematics, control, simultaneous localisation, and mapping, with Souness explaining students will learn techniques like deep reinforcement to learn the necessary skills to become a software engineer in the field of robotics and applied artificial intelligence.
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