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Developing skills in the mechatronic design process. Design and selection of components common to mechatronic systems using engineering science taught in other courses. Application of modern tools and processes to mechatronic design. Developing engineering communication skills in the context of design.
This whole-year course aims to provide students with knowledge, skills, and exposure to the integrated design process of mechatronic systems. An important part of this course is the year-long team design project, which involves designing and implementing a complex mechatronic system (autonomous mobile robot) and evaluating its performance in a competition amongst the class. This project brings together material taught in this and other courses and provides students with practical experience in mechatronic system design. Key aspects of this course are:* Methods for breaking down a design brief and formulating requirements on which to base and evaluate a design.* Division of a system into sub-systems for integrated, iterative design.* Introduction of some of the main mechatronic engineering components and how to select them and use them in design.* Methods for modelling systems in design (block diagrams, finite state machines, static models)* Use of modern tools for mechatronic design* Design communication An important part of this course is the year-long team design project, which involves designing and implementing a complex mechatronic system (an autonomous, mobile robot), and competing against class members in the UC Robocup competition. This project brings together the material taught in this and other courses and provides students with practical experience in mechatronic design. Semester one mainly covers* Mechanical component design* Mechatronic system design fundamentals* System design tools * Modelling * Reliability and hazard analysis * Version control (Git)* Design communication Semester two mainly covers* Mechatronic components: sensors* Modern mechatronic tools * Signal processing * Filtering
1.Apply mechatronics design principles to a broad multidisciplinary engineering project that is open ended.1.1. Establish objectives and criteria for engineering design from user requirements (WA4)1.2. Undertake conceptual design including creating solutions from scratch and evaluating their feasibility against competing functional and manufacturability constraints (WA3)1.3. Analyse and optimise designs by selecting appropriate methods and applying basic engineering sciences (WA2)1.4. Synthesise integrated solutions for a novel engineering design-problem, where that involves assessing loads, making design decisions, and selecting components (WA3, WA4, WA9) (EIE3)1.5. Fabricate and assemble a design and validate performance against defined requirements (WA3) (EIE3)2. Apply modern mechatronic engineering design and analysis tools/methods.2.1. Undertake CAD modelling and drawing using assemblies (WA5) (EIE4)2.2. Simulation of complex engineering systems: Produce a multidomain physical systems model using appropriate software to simulate and analyse a mechatronic system (WA5) (EIE4)2.3. Engineering safety, risk, and reliability: Analyse the reliability of a mechatronic system during the design phase using fault tree analysis (WA4)2.4. Sustainability and environmental considerations: Explain life cycle assessment of a product (WA6)2.5. Signal processing: 2.5.1. Apply signal processing techniques in time and frequency domains to analyse and synthesise data from one or more sensors (WA5)2.5.2. Design and implement digital filters to condition signals (WA3, WA5)3.Effectively communicate design ideas and project work through engineering drawings, calculation sets, and engineering design reports (WA9) (EIE2)
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.
ENMT201, orENMT211 and ENMT221
ENMT302
Students must attend one activity from each section.
Chris Pretty
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).
Domestic fee $2,244.00
International fee $12,475.00
* 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 .