TEACHING MECHATRONICS ENGINEERING A CHALLENGE OF THE NEW CENTURY Autores:

One of the branches of the Engineering that more influences on the construction of our modern world is certainly MECHATRONIC ENGINEERING. Many definitions of Mechatronic exist, but more or less all talks about the technological integration of the mechanics, the electronics and computer science. A Mechatronic Engineer is a professional able to develop and to manage mechatronic systems, contributing to the development of the country by means of improvement of the industries for the profit of productive standards of world-wide class. Nowadays numerous challenges for the education of Mechatronics exist, among them are the following: The design and the putting in practice of the control continue being something own of the dominion of the specialist in controls. The controls and the electronics still are seeing like “additions” to the processes or equipments. Very few engineers of the industrial practice realize any class of physical and/or mathematical modeling. The mathematics is a matter considered more like an obstacle than like a matter that extends the capacities of the engineer. Very few engineers have the suitable balance between the analysis and hardware; essential for the success in Mechatronics. How to obtain the suitable balance between the knowledge of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Computation and Automatic control for the suitable formation of a Mechatronic Engineer who satisfies the increasing demands of the industrial development and the abilities that are required for this specialist. In the present work answers for these and other questions are offered.