Program Details
Mechatronics engineering is a growing field that combines mechanical, electrical and computer engineering. It’s used to design things like self-driving cars, autonomous robots in factories, surgical robots, 3D printers and smart-home appliances.
These machines can help build electronics, assist in surgery or support search-and-rescue teams during emergencies. As they begin to use artificial intelligence to take on more complex tasks, the design and function of the machines are becoming more advanced, too.
In the Bachelor of Mechatronics Engineering program, you’ll learn how these areas work together to create advanced machines. You’ll also take part in practical projects such as building and programming robots, designing electronic circuits, working with sensors and controllers and testing real-world engineering systems in labs.
Labs and Facilities
In the Bachelor of Mechatronics Engineering program, students gain experience with state-of-the-art facilities in mechanical, electronic and computer systems. You’ll have access to newly built, specialized facilities including mechatronic systems labs, and embedded systems labs equipped with advanced sensors, actuators and microcontrollers.
Co-op
Carleton offers students a paid Co-op option with work terms of 4, 6, 8, 12 or 16 months.
Work Experience
Ottawa is home to one of Canada’s largest concentrations of government agencies and high-tech companies.
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Career Outcomes
Explore your passions, refine new skills and discover the career that’s right for you.
From developing robotic systems used in industrial automation to designing medical equipment used to 3D print biomaterials, there is a growing need for mechatronics engineers.
Sample Courses
ECOR 1032 - Circuits and Mechatronics
Electrical circuit fundamentals: resistance, capacitance, inductance, voltage and current sources, Ohm’s law, nodal analysis, mesh analysis, source transformation, superposition. Components for mechatronics: filters, operational amplifiers, digital logic gates and combinatorial circuits, analog to digital converters, sensors, actuators, simple control schemes. Project in microcontroller-embedded mechatronic system.
SYSC 4505 - Automatic Control Systems I
Review of Laplace transform techniques. Effects of feedback: frequency response, pole-zero positions. Compensation: root locus, Bode plots. State variables: formulation, solution of linear systems, examples of simple second-order non-linear systems. Discrete time systems: z-transforms. Signal reconstruction.
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