Mechatronics—the evolution of an academic discipline in engineering education

The Internet of Things – The future or the end of mechatronics

“…A key element of course development in recent years has been the inclusion of significant a design-based component into Mechatronics programmes, often through the medium of project based working [118,122,[126][127][128][129][130]133,138,139].…”

Transdisciplinary Approach of the Mechatronics in the Knowledge Based Society

“…The principles of mechatronical education can be applied successfully to all teaching levels, creating the necessary teachinglearning environment, as a teaching factory, as a mobile mechatronical platform, or as another educational systems (Stiffler, 1992;Alptekin, 1996;Lamancusa et al, 1997;Arkin et al, 1997;Rainey, 2002;Erdener, 2003;Erbe & Bruns, 2003;Quinsee, 2005;Papoutsidakis et al, 2008;Mătieş et al, 2008). It is necessary to define curricular areas with the possibility to switch from a unilateral monodisciplinary thinking, based on a single discipline, to a flexible, global thinking, which assures an integrating approach to the educational process, as a synergistic generative transdisciplinary way (Berte, 2005;Rainey, 2002;Grimheden & Hanson, 2005). The key aims of the mechatronical approach of knowledge are to promote relevant education and training, support the development of research programs and diffuse information relating to the application of techniques across all industrial fields (Kyura & Oho, 1996;Iserman, 2000;Minor & Meek, 2002).…”

“…Others such examples, the synergistic synthesis of Scientia (Mechatronical Education, as a new educational transdisciplinary paradigm, the mechatronical epistemology), of Techne (Mechatronical Technology, working as a reflexive way of the integrative design, the creative logic of the included middle), and of Praxis (Mechatronical Economy of the intelligent products, through the mattergic embedded informaction, with a new socio-interactive system of thought, living and action, the mechatronical ontology), are working in the same way. The common significant generative-sinergistic space of the knowledge resulted here is the Meta-Mecatronics (Phylosofia Technologica Systemica), considered as an open transdisciplinary integrative system of the informergic knowledge (Mieg, 1996;Wikander et al, 2001;Nicolescu, 2002;Grimheden & Hanson, 2001;Bridwell et al, 2006;Pop, 2009). …”

Study on Need Assessment of Mechatronics Education in Norway and Poland

“…Some of the previous studies focused on the issue from the view of education philosophy of engineering [6] while others worked on the programs of curriculum [7] as well as the evolutionary development of the field as an engineering branch and the possible standardization of the education on nearly universal base [8]. The reported surveys, mainly in universities, have both national and regional characteristics [9].…”