AIM 2023: Mechatronics Education Workshop

HALF DAY WORKSHOP
Date: June 28
Time: 10AM-12.00PM
Venue: Vashon 2
Conference Venue: The Westin Seattle,
1900 5th Avenue, Seattle Washington 98101

Overview

Mechatronics and Robotics Education (MRE) is of critical importance as the technologies become more multi-disciplinary. The discussion on ‘Developing a Roadmap for Mechatronics & Robotics Engineering Education’ has been pursued by academics, e.g., recently through the ‘NSF Workshop on Unified Curriculum and Course Design for Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering’. This has resulted in guidelines and recommendations for educators to encourage adoption of MRE. However, the next step asks for consolidation of resources for educators that span across different disciplines and focus on the coupled theory-experiment aspect of the field.

Mission​​

The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum to discuss recent advances and challenges in the field of mechatronics education. The multi-disciplinary nature of the field includes topics from controls theory, mechanism design, microprocessor programming and system integration, to name a few. Furthermore, the wide application of mechatronic systems does allow for increased interest in the field, however, has resulted in education challenges – what, why and how to teach the topics in a limited time-frame? The timeline typically being one (or two) semester course(s). It would be safe to say that almost every university offers a course in mechatronics that is being taught by extremely passionate and creative educators. Some of these pedagogies are communicated to the public through research papers at conferences, however, most remain with the educators, while being fine-tuned over multiple years. This workshop will provide participants with an opportunity to present and discuss the pedagogies for mechatronics education and their perspective of what is fundamental knowledge with the focus on curating resources (including experiments, projects) that encompass multi-disciplinary education. This will be done through a series of invited talks, a solicited poster session, and an interactive panel discussion.

Speakers

  • Arian Panah and Peter Martin (Quanser)
  • Canino Miles (Rose-Hulman)
  • David Trumper (MIT)
  • Joshua Hurst (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
  • Keith Williams (University of Alabama)
  • Raul Longoria (UT Austin)
  • Yue Wang (Clemson)

Tentative Program

[10.00 AM-10.10 AM] Welcome Remarks
[10.10 AM-10.30 AM] “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Mechatronics Education” 
[10.30 AM-10.50 AM] “Hobby to precision – lowering barriers to Mechatronics Education”
[10.50 AM-11.10 AM] “Mechatronics 2035 – AI and other tools for Mechatronics”
[11.10 AM-11.50 AM] Panel Discussion: “Ideation to Tangible Implementation”
[11.50 AM-12.00 PM] Closing RemarksOnline Participation:
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Link: https://ua-edu.zoom.us/j/85630430933?pwd=WW9rUFJTVFB6MnJ4SUhReFF6bCtjZz09
Topic: AIM 2023 Mechatronics Education Workshop
Time: Jun 26, 2023 10:00AM-12.00PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Meeting ID: 856 3043 0933
Passcode: 959205

Organizers

  • Sandipan Mishra (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
  • Vishesh Vikas (University of Alabama)​