Aim
The course aims at giving the student knowledge, skills and experience from taking part in an industrially based mechatronic development project, which is conducted up to a working prototype. It is essential that the work is done in a team with competences from various fields.

The course Mechatronics, advanced course, is given in close cooperation with the course Product Development Project (MMK101), also with an outstanding industrial connection. Some of the projects in the latter course are demanding the mechatronic competence that the students in Mechatronics, advanced course, can give.

Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must

• be able to analyze the various parts in a product specification and freely define and evaluate a number of solution concepts according to the principles of product development

• be able to identify the best solution concept according to selection criteria

• be able to identify constructive materials in the selected product concept with adequate mechanical, thermal, and magnetic characteristics

• be able to define production methods for the selected construction material

• be able to describe the principles for real time programming and communication for the integrated control system in the product concept and calculate its data

• be able to calculate the data for the power electronic and electromagnetic energy converter of the product.

Skills and abilities
For a passing grade the student must

• be able to use applicable methods for product development in a mechatronic team

• be able to make a specification for suitable materials, production methods, control electronics, and the power electronic and electromagnetic energy converters of a certain product

• be able to implement a mechatronic concept all the way to a working prototype for industrial application

• be able to test and evaluate the prototype.

Judgement and approach
For a passing grade the student must

• be able to work and cooperate with all relevant competences represented in a mechatronic team

• have the understanding and judgment to respect and demand all the various competences that are necessary for mechatronic constructive design.

Contents
The project is done during two study periods, for some students in cooperation with students in the project development course MMK101. The course participants should develop the mechatronic parts of those projects or other purely mechatronic products.

The development process starts with extensive information search, brain storming, and evaluation, activities which often encompass 30-40% of the total work load. Then follows selection of concept, constructive design of the product idea, ordering of material, building, testing, and adjustments.

The course concludes with the official presentation of the designed products, where representatives from industry, course leaders, and the press take part.

Literature
Bradley D, Seward D, Dawson D, Burge S: Mechatronics and the design of intelligent machines and systems, Stanley and Thornes, 2000. ISBN 0-7487-5443-1. (The same book as for the course EIE070 Mechatronics)