Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Course and Option Talk - Mechatronics

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3rd Year Curriculum Overview FALL

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MIE301: Kinematics and Dynamics of Machines

MIE312: Fluid Mechanics I

MIE342: Circuits with Applications to Mechanical Engineering Systems

MIE358: Engineering Economics and Accounting

Natural science requirement

WINTER

MIE315: Design for the Environment

MIE313: Heat and Mass Transfer

MIE334: Numerical Methods I

Two stream option courses

4th Year Curriculum Overview FALL

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MIE491: Capstone Design

Two stream option courses

One Technical Elective

Other: HSS or CS Elective

WINTER

MIE491: Capstone Design

Three Technical Elective courses

Other: HSS or CS Elective

Mechatronics – Core Courses Third Year, Fall Term – MIE342 – Circuits w/ Appl. To Mech

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Teaches basic techniques for analyzing circuits (things like current and voltage laws) and circuit components (such as sources, inductors, capacitors, and op-amps)

Mechatronics – Core Courses

Third Year, Winter Term – MIE346 – Analog & Digital Electronics

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Teaches advanced circuits – motor drivers, oscillators, filters, plus new semiconductor devices (diodes, MOSFETs, BJTs), plus real world design and analysis

Mechatronics – Core Courses

Fourth Year, Fall Term – MIE404 – Control Systems I

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Teaches general methods to control a feedback system; both mathematical and practical (i.e.: Magnetic Levitation control lab)

Notable Technical Electives

MIE444 – Mechatronics Principles

Design Course – Smart Systems, Interfacing and Control, Modeling, and a practical project (build a line follower)

MIE443 – Mechatronics Systems: Design & Integration

Design Course – Teaches the design process, automation, and integration of real-world Mechatronics systems

MIE438 – Microprocessors and Embedded Microcontrollers

Teaches how to use microcontrollers in real-world Mechatronics systems; project focused

Mechatronics - Overview

What is Mechatronics? What will you learn?

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Interdisciplinary – Mechanical, Electrical, Computer Science

Design of complete, modern mechanical systems which require integral electronic components

Examples: Robots, Appliances, Cars, Aircraft, Spacecraft, etc…

Mechatronics - Overview

What is Mechatronics? What will you learn?

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Mechatronics - Overview What is Mechatronics: Interdisciplinary

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Mechatronics

Solid Mechanics

Manufacturing

Bioengineering

Energy & Environment

Mechatronics – Jobs

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“Every mechanical system is waiting to be smarter, and the way to do it is through electronics…”

Mechatronics - Jobs

The practical: how to search for jobs

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Mechatronics is one of the most commonly misunderstood fields:

“Control Engineer”, “Electrical Engineer”, “Automation Engineer”, “Industrial Engineer”, etc.

Most commonly listed by secondary specialization, when the real goal is still to hire someone with mechatronics background

Suggestion: Explore a secondary specialization, especially after graduating, and highlight this to potential employers. Build a design portfolio.

Mechatronics – Research

Samples of Research: MEMS

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Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems Tiny systems that combine electrical and mechanical components to accomplish a task: motion, sorting, fluid compression, lensing, etc.

Relevant labs: Prof. Ridha Ben Mrad, Prof. Yu Sun, Prof. James Mills

Mechatronics – Research

Samples of Research: Active Vision

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Active Vision Using cameras that move in response to what they are seeing, in order to see better in the future. May also be predictive, moving in anticipation of future actions.

Relevant labs: Prof. Beno Benhabib

Mechatronics – Research

Samples of Research: Water and Energy

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Clean, Reliable Water and Energy Using a combination of mechanical, electrical, and chemical systems to create reliable systems to produce clean water and reliable energy in demanding environments.

Relevant labs: Prof. Amy Bilton

Mechatronics – Research

Samples of Research: Humanoid Robotics

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Human-Robot Interaction: Socially Assistive Using robots to interact with humans in a social assistance capacity; human factors and interactions need to be considered.

Relevant labs: Prof. Goldie Nejat

Mechatronics – Q & A

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Questions?