A Design-Oriented Undergraduate Curriculum in Mechatronics Education

摘要

Mechatronics is bringing about an industrial paradigm shift with its multidisciptinary integrated approach to product design and development. It is poised to become the key enabling technology to use for gaming a competitive edge in the modern manufacturing era. The development of mechatronics will therefore be crucial to the continued competitiveness of national economies. In order to fulfil the changing requirements of industry, many universities worldwide have introduced course revisions and new courses in mechatronics. In the present paper, an attempt has been made to redefine mechatronics and synthesize various mechatronics programs being conducted all over the world. The proposed curriculum envisions mechatronics as a new engineering design strategy, perceives it as a systemic business philosophy and emphasizes interdisciplinary communication, team effort and industrially relevant project-based learning.