As WPI’s 2023 B term comes to a close, my graduate robotics courses come to a close as well. For these past two terms, I have been lucky to take one of WPI’s graduate-level robotics courses, RBE501: Robot Dynamics. We learned a lot more than “just” dynamics in this course, from new ways to calculate forward kinematics, to some perhaps unintended practical experience on how to make metal parts.