Ruppin College
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Ruppin Academic Center המרכז האקדמי רופין |
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| Coordinates: 32°20′35″N 34°54′43″E / 32.34306°N 34.91194°ECoordinates: 32°20′35″N 34°54′43″E / 32.34306°N 34.91194°E | |
| District | Central |
| Council | Hefer Valley |
| Population (2015) | 480 |
| Website | www.ruppin.ac.il |
Ruppin Academic Center (Hebrew: המרכז האקדמי רופין), also known as Ruppin College, is a college and village in Israel. It was established in 1949, is named after Arthur Ruppin, and is located near the moshav Kfar Monash, and within the Hefer Valley Regional Council area. In 2015, it had 4,500 students, whilst the village had a population of 480 in 2015.
It was originally called "Midreshet Ruppin" and the "Ruppert School", and was established to provide management education in the area of agriculture, the kibbutz, and the moshav. In 2001, it became a public school.
In 2013, Ruppin and Tel Aviv University created a joint advanced multi-disciplinary center with the purpose of training students, with a focus on environmental issues in the Mediterranean Sea. In October 2014, it was announced that Noble Energy would establish a center to train technicians in the energy and natural gas industry at Ruppin with a grant of NIS 12 million.
It has four schools (economics and business administration, social and communal sciences, engineering, and marine sciences) and 15 academic departments, and awards bachelor's and master's degrees.
Research plays a vital part in the Ruppin Academic Center. Ruppin researchers not only contribute in professional literature and conferences. Ruppin Academic Center established various novel conferences organized and hosted by researchers from Ruppin Academic Center.
Research laboratories of Ruppin Academic Center:
Knowledge Engineering and Robotics is headed by Dr. Rina Zviel Girshin. Her special approach is the organic paradigm. The Knowledge Engineering and Robotics Lab provides the infrastructure for a multidisciplinary group of researchers and many students interested in specializing in the area of robotics. This lab is first of its kind in Israel.
The Organic Knowledge (OK) approach to robotics sees robot as different from other computerized systems in the robot being smarter, more involved, and more human-like. The OKbot has human expertise, sensors, actuators, more interactive with environment and especially with humans, and mechanisms for proactive learning and evolving. One of the more important aspects of the Knowledge Engineering and Robotics Lab is variety of projects and especially comparative research of different robot platforms and hardware. Some are just development over preexisting platforms, some are more basic improvements and some are totally self designed and self manufactured.
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