Platform for Hands-on Engaging Design Activities

The Mechatronics Technology Center at City Tech provides a platform to teach engineering technology through a hands-on approach. Students learn by doing and experimentation in addition to their classroom studies. In the hands-on academic environment students are able to make mistakes and learn from their mistakes. The principles learned in the classroom come alive when you can see and touch real products and real mechanisms. "Failure is the mother of success".

Mechatronics technology has been identified as one of the top 10 emerging technologies of the 21st century.  Mechatronics Technology Center (MTC) funded by National Science Foundation's Advanced Technology Education (ATE) division provides hands on training in emerging mechatronics product design. Engineering technician education must be aligned with industry practice in order to maintain global competitiveness in the new and growing field of mechatronic product design and development. The MTC provides students a framework of fundamental design knowledge with hands on cross disciplinary activities that allow them to develop an interdisciplinary understanding and integrated approach to product design. This project engages and prepares students by adapting the well established Robotics Academy of Carnegie Mellon University curriculum and teaches the various aspects of mechatronic product design with embedded systems using a concurrent engineering approach.