Title
Mechatronics Pedagogy In Mechanical Engineering Capstone Design
Abstract
This paper presents the pedagogy of mechatronics in the mechanical engineering senior capstone design classes at the University of California Los Angeles during 2011-2016. Students entering the class with little hands-on experience in mechatronics are given lectures and hands-on laboratory tutorials and practice to conceptualize, design, and realize mechatronic systems. Students are then provided with mechatronics kits to design and realize their projects that culminate in final competitions. The pedagogy attempts to provide fine balances between scalable top-down systems approach and practical bottom-up hands-on skills. As such, real-time system topics and software tools, including State Charts, data and signal flow block diagrams, prioritized real-time loops and event triggers, and CPU timing diagrams, are introduced to mechanical engineering students.
Year
Venue
Field
2017
2017 AMERICAN CONTROL CONFERENCE (ACC)
Capstone,Mechanical engineering,Software,Pedagogy,Engineering,Robot,Mechatronics,Block diagram,Scalability
DocType
ISSN
Citations 
Conference
0743-1619
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
1
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sandeep Rai100.68
James Simonelli200.68
Kevin C. Chu331.74
Herrick L. Chang411.09
Christopher Kang500.34
Christopher Lim600.34
Robert Shaefer700.34
Tsu-Chin Tsao813537.12