ENMT301-09W (C) Whole Year 2009

Mechatronics System Design

24 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 23 February 2009
End Date: Sunday, 15 November 2009
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 8 March 2009
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 6 September 2009

Description

Continuation of the study of Mechatronics Engineering as a discipline. In-depth study of sensors and actuators. Lectures and practice of engineering design methods. Comprehensive team project.

Compulsory to 2nd Pro Mechatronics students, this whole year design course aims to teach students design skills. In the first semester, the course teaches students how to do what design engineers do, namely:
• to use innovative and creative skills
• to use engineering communication skills, such as report writing, engineering drawing, and oral presentation
• to apply the science of engineering (learnt in the other subject areas) to real world engineering problems.

It introduces some of the main engineering components and shows how to select them and use them in design.

In the second semester the course aims to advance the students’ knowledge and understanding of mechatronics system design in theory and develop their hands-on skills of design and implementation in practice through participating in Canterbury RoboCup - Search and Rescue Competitions. This second part of the course covers:

• Introduction to Mechatronics and system design
• Sensors and Actuators
• Digital data acquisition, processing and control
• Introduction to computer vision and image processing
• Design concept, system architecture, and evaluation
• Computer programming
• System integration: hardware and software implementation, testing and evaluation

Prerequisites

Course Coordinator

XiaoQi Chen

Lecturers

Keith Alexander , Wenhui Wang , Larry Brackney and Allan McInnes

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Assignment 1 6%
Assignment 2 10%
Assignment 3 20%
Oral Presentation 4% Oral Presentation for Assignment 1
Beam Test 10% Beam Test for Assignment 2

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,071.00

International fee $5,140.00

* 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.

Limited Entry Course

Maximum enrolment is 30

For further information see Mechanical Engineering .

All ENMT301 Occurrences

  • ENMT301-09W (C) Whole Year 2009
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