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Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Department
IME-590 "Mechatronics in Manufacturing"


Objective:
The objective of this course is to provide engineering
students with the background and training necessary to
incorporate electronic components and use software in
the design of mechanical systems used in manufacturing
environments. This course will address different 
elements of a mechatronic system: microprocessors, 
sensors, actuators, data acquisition, and signal
conditioning.


Textbook:
"Mechatronics: Electronics in Products and Processes,"
D.A. Bradley, D.  Dawson, N.C. Burd, and A.J. Loader,
Chapman and Hall, 1991.


Tentative Schedule:
Sensors and Transducers  		(3 classes)
Actuating Devices 			(6 classes)
Embedded Microprocessor Systems 	(5 classes)
System Controllers  			(3 classes)
Control Logics and PLC's  		(4 classes)
Signal Conditioning  			(2 classes)
Laboratory   				(5 classes)
Exams					(2 classes)


Design Projects Description:
Students will be required to work on the design and
development of open-ended applications of mechatronic
systems.  The team-based projects will start towards
the last third of the Semester.  Students will be
divided into several teams.  Each team will choose
a main mechatronic component (such as: microcontrollers, 
machine vision, actuators, etc.) and other supplementary 
elements to develop a working sub-system with a predefined
function.  All sub-systems will be combined to form an
integrated system by the end of the semester.

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