ENMT301-25W (C) Whole Year 2025

Mechatronics System Design

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 February 2025
End Date: Sunday, 9 November 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 16 March 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 24 August 2025

Description

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 mechatronics systems. Students use innovative and creative skills to design systems that exhibit ‘synergistic integration’ of mechanical, electrical, and computational elements.

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

Learning Outcomes

1. Apply mechatronics design principles to a multidisciplinary engineering project.
2. Apply modern mechatronic engineering design and analysis tools/methods
3. Produce an integrated engineering solution to a broad problem that is not fully defined and is open-ended.
4. Effectively communicate design ideas and project work through engineering drawings, engineering design reports,           and project presentations.
5. Demonstrate organisational, project management, research, and interpersonal (team) skills.

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

ENMT201, or
ENMT211 and ENMT221

Restrictions

Timetable 2025

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Lecture A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Monday 11:00 - 12:00 Haere-roa 118 Ngaio Marsh Theatre
17 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun
Lecture B
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Wednesday 08:00 - 09:00 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 E9 Lecture Theatre
17 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun
Lecture D
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Tuesday 12:00 - 13:00 Haere-roa 118 Ngaio Marsh Theatre
31 Mar - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun
Lecture E
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Tuesday 16:00 - 18:00 Rehua 102
17 Mar - 30 Mar
Lab A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Tuesday 16:00 - 18:00 Mech 214 Mechatronics Lab
17 Feb - 16 Mar
31 Mar - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun
Lab B
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Monday 08:00 - 11:00 Mech 214 Mechatronics Lab
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct
Lab C
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Tuesday 11:00 - 14:00 Mech 214 Mechatronics Lab
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct
Lab D
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Wednesday 11:00 - 14:00 Mech 214 Mechatronics Lab
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct
Tutorial A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Tuesday 13:00 - 14:00 Rehua 005
17 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun
02 Tuesday 14:00 - 15:00 Rehua 005
17 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun
03 Tuesday 15:00 - 16:00 Rehua 005
17 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun
Tutorial B
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Wednesday 12:00 - 13:00 Rehua 102
31 Mar - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun

Course Coordinator

Chris Pretty

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Mech Design: Structure Design 26 Mar 2024 6%
Assignment 29 Mar 2024 4% Multidomain modelling
Mech Design: Structure Test 6% 29-April - 03-May (wk 8)
FTA Assignment 26 Apr 2024 4%
Robocup: Report 1 17 May 2024 10%
IMU Assignment 24 May 2024 4%
Test 1 25% Signals, sensors and modelling in exam week
Mech Design: Bearing Housing 27 May 2024 12%
Robocup Report 2 09 Sep 2024 10% S2
Robocup Oral Presentation 3% S2 week 18 - 20 September
Robocup Competition 6% S2 week 09-11th October
Robocup Report 3 18 Oct 2024 10% S2

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 $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 .

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  • ENMT301-25W (C) Whole Year 2025