Mechatronics Certificate
The Department of Mechanical Engineering offers a Certificate of Mechatronics. The certificate program is open to all matriculated, upper-division College of Engineering students or any student who has a bachelor’s degree from a recognized engineering program or an allied science. To obtain the certificate the student must complete 21 credit hours of mechatronics course work, plus a mechatronics project. The course work is made up of seven hours of core courses, ME EN 3220 and 3230, and 14 hours of electives (older catalog years may use ME EN 3200 and 3210). The requirements are described in more detail below.
Certificate Requirements
Any student in the college of engineering (or related sciences) can earn a certificate in mechatronics by passing the required classes and 14 semester hours of courses from the list of approved electives, and by completing an approved mechatronics project. The certificate will be awarded with the bachelor’s degree (B. S.) or at the graduate level.
Required Courses
Pass the year-long Mechatronics sequence (ME EN 3200 and 3210, OR ME EN 3220 and 3230, or equivalent) receiving a grade of B- or better.
Approved Elective Courses
The student must pass 14 hours from the following list of classes, with a grade of B- or better. Other courses can be used with approval from the Mechatronics Committee.
| Course # | Title | Offered | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| ME EN 5200 | Classical Control Systems | Fall | 3 |
| ME EN 5205 | System Dynamics | Fall | 3 |
| ME EN 5210 | State Space Control | Spring | 3 |
| ME EN 5220 | Robotics | Fall | 3 |
| ME EN 5230 | Robot Control | Spring | 3 |
| ME EN 6240 | Advanced Mechatronics | Spring | 4 |
| ECE 5670 | Control of Electric Motors | Check schedule | 3 |
| ECE/CS 5780 | Embedded System Design | Check schedule | 3 |
| PHYS 3610 | Electronics for Scientific Instrumentation | Check schedule | 3 |
| PHYS 3620 | Data Acquisition for Scientific Instrumentation | Check schedule | 3 |
Mechatronics Project Requirements
The Mechanical Engineering Department’s Mechatronics Committee must approve each student’s mechatronics project, which must be completed as part of the requirements for the Mechatronics Certificate. Each student’s project must include the following:
- Use of micro-controller-based or embedded controllers;
- Mechanical and Electrical component design such as actuators, sensors, signal conditioning, and mechanisms;
- Use of sensors and actuators for feedback-based control.