Professional Undergraduate Study Program in Mechatronics

Learning Outcomes of the Undergraduate Professional Study Program in Mechatronics

Upon finishing the study program in Mechatronics, students will acquire the following competencies:

Generic competences:

• ability to use a second language in the professional literature and professional communication;
• ability to apply knowledge in mathematics and physics to engineering issues;
• ability to use techniques, skills, and modern tools necessary in engineering practice;
• ability to relate engineering design, manufacturing, and marketing to user’s requirements for products and services;
• ability to identify, model, and solve engineering issues.

Personal competencies:

• knowledge of contemporary issues in the professional area and society;
• responsibility, consistency, accuracy, and promptness;
• ethical and moral approach to work;
• critical evaluation of arguments, assumptions, and data in order to make opinions and contribute to the solution of a problem;
• readiness to do fieldwork and work under non-standard conditions;
• work experience with project teams and in the industry;
• presenting information, ideas, problems, and solutions to the professional and general public;
• communication skills in professional communications and with clients in both English and Croatian;
• positive professional and personality traits;
• adaptability to new technologies and techniques as a part of the lifelong learning process;
• openness to new knowledge, experience, and cultural circumstances;
• flexibility and adaptability to finding technical solutions based on unquestionable observance of basic ethical principles, regulations, and professional rules.

Subject-specific competencies:

• ability to design machine elements and circuits taking into consideration the principles of strength, deformation, kinematics, and dynamics;
• ability to propose types of material and technological procedures;
• ability to design and implement hydraulic and pneumatic systems in all technical branches;
• ability to propose sensors, actuators, energy and control units, communication protocols and the accompanying equipment to be used in the automation of various technical processes in mechatronics (electric drives, machine tools, fluid storage processes, heat and transport processes);
• ability to calculate regulator parameters to be used in the regulation of various technical processes in mechatronics;
• ability to design electronic circuits containing microcontrollers by means of EDA tools;
• ability to devise program solutions to embedded computer systems used in various technical processes in mechatronics;
• ability to plan production and projects and optimize resources;
• ability to work out foundations for a modern approach to quality assurance;

Electives:

• ability to control CNC machines, CAD/CAM systems, and flexible manufacturing systems;
• ability to analyze robot and manipulator operations in mechatronics.

Direct classes of each course are held in the form of:

• lectures and/or (L)
• exercises and/or (E)

according to the table that follows.