Development of a Mechatronics and Intelligent Machines Laboratory

工程-机械(56)田纳西理工大学的机械工程(ME)和电气和计算机工程(ECA)系提供机械或电气和计算机系统的综合、分析和设计的背景知识。然而，目前的课程没有为学生提供适当的平台，将这些知识整合到跨学科、面向团队的工程设计体验中，包括机械、电气和计算机控制。为了解决这一问题，该项目采用了弗吉尼亚理工学院和犹他大学机电一体化项目的成果，并在完成机电一体化和智能机器实验室的过程中加以实施。该实验室促进了建立一个专业领域的努力(ME或欧洲经委会专业的一个选择)，构成了ME和欧洲经委会课程之间的无缝互动。该实验室由10个工作站组成，学生团队使用这些工作站进行实验室实验和开展开放式机电一体化系统项目。正在通过为当地工业界和K-12教师举办讲习班、访问当地K-12学校演示学生项目以及在互联网和会议上介绍学生项目来传播项目成果。

Engineering - Mechanical (56)The Mechanical Engineering (ME) and Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) departments at Tennessee Technological University provide a background in the synthesis, analysis, and design of either mechanical or electrical and computer systems. However, the current curriculum does not provide students with the proper platform to integrate this knowledge in an interdisciplinary, team-oriented, engineering design experience that includes mechanical, electrical, and computer control. In order to address this issue, this project adapts results from the mechatronics programs at Virginia Tech and the University of Utah and implements them in the completion of a Mechatronics and Intelligent Machines Laboratory. This laboratory boosts an effort to establish an area of concentration (an option for ME or ECE majors) that constitutes a seamless interaction between ME and ECE curricula. The laboratory consists of 10 workstations that student teams use to perform lab experiments and to carry out open-ended mechatronics systems projects. Project results are being disseminated through workshops for local industry and K-12 teachers, visits to local K-12 schools for demonstrations of student projects, and presentations of student projects over the Internet and at conferences.