ENMT211-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025

Principles of Mechatronics

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 February 2025
End Date: Sunday, 22 June 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 2 March 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 11 May 2025

Description

Introduction to Mechatronics Engineering as a discipline. Fundamentals of sensors, actuators, instrumentation, and control systems and communications systems, and how they can be integrated to form a Mechatronics system.

Learning Outcomes

  • Washington Accord (V4) Summary of Graduate Attributes attained in this course:


  • Course topics with Learning Outcomes (and Washington Accord (WA) and UC Graduate Attributes) identified.

    1. Be able to explain what constitutes the discipline of Mechatronics Engineering and how it relates to allied Engineering disciplines and society.
    2. Describe basic principles of sensors, actuators, control systems, and communications systems, and how they can be integrated to form a Mechatronics system.
    3. Analyse basic mechanical motion transmission systems.
    4. Design and implement Programmable Logic Control software on a mechatronic system.
    5. Conduct simple electronic circuit analysis and design.
    • University Graduate Attributes

      This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

      Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award

      Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.

Prerequisites

Subject to the approval of the Dean of Engineering

Restrictions

ENMT201

Timetable 2025

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Lecture A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Tuesday 12:00 - 13:00 A3 Lecture Theatre
17 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun
Lecture B
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Wednesday 13:00 - 14:00 Meremere 108 Lecture Theatre
17 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun
Lecture C
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Thursday 12:00 - 13:00 Meremere 108 Lecture Theatre
17 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun
Lab A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Thursday 09:00 - 12:00 Elec 109 Automation Lab
17 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun
02 Tuesday 14:00 - 17:00 Elec 109 Automation Lab
17 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun
03 Wednesday 14:00 - 17:00 Elec 109 Automation Lab
17 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun
04 Wednesday 09:00 - 12:00 Elec 109 Automation Lab
17 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun
Lab B
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Tuesday 14:00 - 17:00 Mech 130 Thermo Lab
17 Mar - 23 Mar
02 Monday 09:00 - 12:00 Mech 130 Thermo Lab
17 Mar - 23 Mar
03 Wednesday 09:00 - 12:00 Mech 130 Thermo Lab
17 Mar - 23 Mar
04 Monday 09:00 - 12:00 Mech 130 Thermo Lab
31 Mar - 6 Apr
05 Tuesday 09:00 - 12:00 Mech 130 Thermo Lab
24 Mar - 30 Mar
06 Thursday 09:00 - 12:00 Mech 130 Thermo Lab
24 Mar - 30 Mar
07 Tuesday 09:00 - 12:00 Mech 130 Thermo Lab
31 Mar - 6 Apr
08 Thursday 09:00 - 12:00 Mech 130 Thermo Lab
31 Mar - 6 Apr
Lab C
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Wednesday 09:00 - 11:00 Elec 110 Electrical Machines Lab
12 May - 18 May
02 Tuesday 08:00 - 10:00 Elec 110 Electrical Machines Lab
19 May - 25 May
03 Thursday 10:00 - 12:00 Elec 110 Electrical Machines Lab
12 May - 18 May
04 Tuesday 15:00 - 17:00 Elec 110 Electrical Machines Lab
19 May - 25 May
05 Wednesday 09:00 - 11:00 Elec 110 Electrical Machines Lab
19 May - 25 May
06 Thursday 10:00 - 12:00 Elec 110 Electrical Machines Lab
19 May - 25 May
Presentation A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Monday 08:00 - 09:00 John Britten 102 Conference foyer
17 Feb - 23 Feb
Tutorial A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Thursday 16:00 - 17:00 Rehua 005
17 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun

Course Coordinator

Tim Giffney

Lecturer

Tim Giffney

Notes

For detailed course, policy, regulatory and integrity information, please refer to the UC web site, or see relevant Course or Department LEARN pages, (which are available to enrolled students).

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,122.00

International fee $6,238.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Mechanical Engineering .

All ENMT211 Occurrences

  • ENMT211-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025