ENMT201-15W (C) Whole Year 2015

Mechatronics Design

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 23 February 2015
End Date: Sunday, 15 November 2015
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 8 March 2015
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 6 September 2015

Description

Introduction to Mechatronics Engineering as a discipline. Fundamentals of sensors, actuators, instrumentation, and control systems. Engineering design and tools including engineering drawing, CAD, circuit simulation, and PCB design.

This whole-year course serves as a foundation for the three professional years’ training in Mechatronics engineering. It covers important topics of mechatronics systems in terms of mechatronics components, design, electronics and control. The outline of this course is as follows:

• Introduction to Mechatronics
• Programmable Logic Controller (PLC)
• Mechatronics components: inputs, outputs, sensors, actuators, mechanisms, motion,
• Computer-Aided Design (CAD): SolidWorks
• Computer Numerical Control (CNC)
• Electrical circuit analysis, instrumentation.
• Electrical schematic capture, circuit simulation & PCB design
• Introduction to control and system modelling

This introductory course with balanced ingredients aims to equip the students with baseline knowledge about mechatronics systems, and basic mechatronics design skills. Emphasis is placed on “Learning by Doing” through:

• a series of laboratory exercises on PLC programming, sensors, actuators and control;
• a series of essential tutorials on circuit analysis;
• laboratories and assignments for mechanical and electrical Computer-Aided Design; and
• a team design project on Elevator Control using PLC.

Students are guided to think “mechatronically”; linking component technologies to integrated mechatronics systems, and theories to applications.

Prerequisites

Subject to the approval of the Dean of Engineering and Forestry

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

XiaoQi Chen

Lecturers

Michael Hayes , Don Clucas and Malcolm Taylor

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
CAD assignment 5% Semester 2
Mid Semester Exam 20%
CNC Lab 3% Semester 2
Lab reports 15% Lab reports (end of each lab)
Metrology Lab 1% Semester 2
Mechatronics Project Report 25%
Semester 2 test 5%
CAD Tutorial 6% Semester 2
Test 02 Apr 2015 20%

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Cetinkunt, Sabri; Mechatronics ; Wiley, 2006.

Recommended Reading

Shetty, Devdas. , Kolk, Richard A; Mechatronics system design ; 2nd ed; Cengage Learning, 2011.

Supplementary notes and references recommended by lecturers.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,749.00

International fee $9,450.00

* 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.

Minimum enrolments

This course will not be offered if fewer than 15 people apply to enrol.

For further information see Mechanical Engineering .

All ENMT201 Occurrences

  • ENMT201-15W (C) Whole Year 2015