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Study Details: 12 months full-time; 24 months part-time
Robots and automated machines can work 24 hours a day, in hazardous places and are much more accurate and consistent than any human. The exciting world of mechatronics and automation engineering has the important task of bringing these machines to life, maintaining them, fixing them when they malfunction and designing and building new models.
Mechatronics and automation is becoming an increasingly important discipline in today’s digital society. Consumers and society have benefited tremendously from new products which have been designed applying mechatronic principles. These intelligent products include:
mobile phones with mechatronic features
intelligent robotic vacuum cleaners
intelligent wheelchairs
The course is aimed at:
graduates from relevant courses, who wish to study mechatronics and automation as their chosen career
those currently working in mechatronics and automation who wish to enhance their theoretical grounding and practical skills
Normally a first-class or second-class honours degree (or international equivalent) in a science or engineering discipline.
Mechatronics and automation are everywhere in industry. Robots are a key part of most production and manufacturing companies and many other organisations across the world. Consequently, mechatronics and automation career opportunities are appearing quickly, looking for skilled, specialist staff.
Working in this type of engineering can bring an immense sense of fulfilment. If you take a project from inception to completion, the rewards can know no bounds. Projects in your role could often be complicated and push your own ability, especially when so many different components are involved. You can also get a great deal of satisfaction from knowing that you are helping less humans have to work in potentially dangerous places.
In terms of technological advancement, automation and robotics engineering is progressing quickly in its traditional home of automotive industries, but also in other areas too. Automation and mechatronics engineering are now being used in almost every sector, including within the emergency services, the military and medical professions.
Core modules:
Sustainable Product Design & Manufacturing (10 credits)
Intelligent Sensing & Reasoning Through Machine Learning (10 credits)
Digital Manufacturing & Smart Products (10 credits)
Manufacturing Automation (10 credits)
Mechatronic Systems Design Techniques (10 credits)
Product Modelling & Visualisation (10 credits)
Postgraduate Group Project (40 credits)
Postgraduate Individual Project
Optional modules:
Engineering Risk Management (10 credits)
Advanced Materials & Production Technology (10 credits)
VIP: Robotic Vehicles for Education and Research (10 credits)
Systems Thinking & Modelling (10 credits)
Systems Engineering Concepts (10 credits)
Project Management (10 credits)
Control Principles (20 credits)
Neural Networks and Deep Learning (10 credits)
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