Robotics as an ECE Major at UT Austin?

Hi everybody,

I was accepted to UT ECE and am considering it against UIUC ECE. I am really attracted to UT for the weather/campus, and coming from New York, getting into that kind of warmer climate and environment is something that is very desirable for me.

I am very passionate about Robotics and Computer Vision and I am wondering to what degree I’d be able to get involved in this at UT Austin as an ECE major. I know that at UIUC there is a Robotics and AI degree concentration (with everything that I’d want). The deal is, I really want to find something significant that can convince me that UT can offer something similar.

The main reason for my concern is that (I believe) UT doesn’t allow ECE majors to take CS courses like Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Can anyone at UT (preferable ECE majors) let me know how well I can get involved with this type of robotics (vision/path planning for mobile robots) as an ECE major?