Development of Educational Materials for Mechatronics

This paper reports the development of teaching materials for mechatronics in tertiary education. Current industrial societies strongly require many mechatronic engineers, and most technical universities actually provide mechatronic exercises in their courses. On the other hand, it is a little difficult for teachers and students to freely modify and improve the mechatronic materials provided by education industries because the provided materials are finished products. Hence a simple and inexpensive educational system is newly developed to overcome disadvantages of the finished products. In this paper, a desirable system structure is proposed for mechatronics education, and a practical example is shown with the aim of soundly learning control, sensor, actuator, and mechanics. Key-Words: Mechatronics, Education, Actuator, Sensing, Control, Pneumatics, Dynamics