Eastern Westmoreland Career and Technology Center

Mechanical and Electronics Engineering are emerging fields of engineering that integrate electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, computer science, control engineering and information technology.   Mechatronics Engineering combines areas of engineering to allow the design, development and application of "smart devices" in an integrated, cross-disciplinary manner. Mechatronics is the science of intelligent systems where students learn to design, develop, fabricate, and test smart systems. Robotics is a good example of Mechatronics since it combines various mechanical parts such as arms, actuators, gears and wheels, with electronic components that control movement, and provide power.   Subjects covered include electronics, robotic engineering, Bots, IQ (BattleBots), parametric solid modeling, Computer-Aided Design software, modeling and simulation of mechatronics systems, sensors and actuators, electric relay control, mechanical design, circuits and systems, control theory, programming, digital signal processing, and power engineering.  Hands-on projects emphasize design of mechanical systems using embedded real-time computing including projects in robotics, automation and controls to include building and programming robots.