Mechatronics II: advanced mechatronics for mechanical engineering students

Author

Gardner, John F. ; Lamancusa, John S. ; Sommer, H. Joseph, III

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. & Nucl. Eng., Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, USA

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

472

Lastpage

476

Abstract

Increasingly, the field of mechatronics is seen as an essential background of a practicing mechanical engineer. A course in advanced mechatronics is described which is offered as a joint graduate-undergraduate course and is intended to be a second course in mechatronics. As opposed to many mechatronics courses, this course focuses more on intelligent product design than on DSP or controls applications. Another unique feature of the course is a class-wide project experience in which 10 separate teams work together on various subsystems of a complex robotic rover vehicle. The class was offered for the first time in the Spring of 1999 and 20 students, both graduate and undergraduate participated

Keywords

educational courses; mechanical engineering; mechatronics; product development; advanced mechatronics; class-wide project experience; complex robotic rover vehicle; intelligent product design; joint graduate-undergraduate course; mechanical engineering students; Adders; Automotive engineering; Circuits; Digital signal processing; Intelligent robots; Laboratories; Mechanical engineering; Mechatronics; Product design; Springs;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, 1999. Proceedings. 1999 IEEE/ASME International Conference on

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5038-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AIM.1999.803214

Filename

803214