BIRCHAM INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Faculty of Engineering & Technology

MODULE: Mechatronic Engineering

Program delivered by distance learning higher education up to a maximum of 36 credits. This module may be combined or completed with other online university courses from this faculty.

DESCRIPTION:

Mechatronic Engineers use computer hardware and software for the control of mechanical systems. Mechatronic systems appear in the use of robotics in manufacturing systems, engine management systems in the automotive industry, complex laser tracking systems in dvd and cd players, and auto-focusing, aperture and shutter control systems in automatic cameras, etc. This program requires the integration of electrical and mechanical engineering to apply emerging computer technology to solve mechanical problems.

Courses list (each subject accounts for 3 credits):

1 BIU Earned Credit = 1 USA Semester Credit (15 hours of learning) = 2 ECTS Credit (30 hours of study).

Materials Science

Integrated Circuits

Academic Supervisor: Higinio Menendez Milanes

More information about this supervisor and online university course instructors at BIU Human Network.

This module is applicable to Specialist, Expert, Bachelor's, Master's and Ph.D. (Doctor) Programs. This distance learning degree program is designed at the postgraduate level – Master’s or Doctoral. This module may be easily adapted to complete the Specialist, Expert or Bachelor’s adult degree program requirements. A further option is the enrollment into the online university courses listed in this module.

* University Course (3 credits): Select 1 subject from this module.

* Specialist Diploma (15 credits): First 5 subjects or select 5 subjects from this module.

* Expert Diploma (21 credits): First 7 subjects or select 7 subjects from this module.

* Bachelor's Degree (130 credits): The Admission certificate issued after submission of the application for admission will show the amount of credit transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete this undergraduate program's major. Additional courses from other modules of this faculty will be assigned in case that the credits displayed on this module are not enough to complete the bachelor's required credits.

* Master's Degree (35 credits): Select from 3 to 9 subjects from this module depending on the amount of credits transferred from previous education and experience. Add 13 credits corresponding to a final project to the selected subjects.

* Ph.D. (Doctor) (45 credits): Select from 3 to 9 subjects from this module depending on the amount of credits transferred from previous education and experience. Add 18 credits corresponding to a final thesis to the selected subjects.

BIU issues an admission certificate after receiving your complete application for admission. This document will show the amount of credits transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete the degree program's major. BIU can not perform this evaluation without the complete application for admission.

Courses Description (each subject accounts for 3 credits):

Materials Science

This course explains how materials are manufactured; why they behave the way they do; how they are fabricated into structural objects-parts; and how they can be compounded into alloys, reinforced composite structures, and flexibilized toughened structures. It considers the properties of materials utilized in practice of engineering, and the atomic, molecular and crystalline structure of metals, ceramics, composites, and polymeric materials.

Instructor: Wolf Dettmer

Integrated Circuits

This course presents electronic circuits based on semiconductors with different technologies and integration procedures. It reviews the integrated circuits performance, characteristics, behavior and implementation. Finally it considers integrated circuits performance with low-power and high-performance demands.

Instructor: Higinio Menendez Milanes

Machine Elements

This course deals with mechanical engineering design and materials, including significant theories of machine elements failure, stress analysis, material fatigue and machine elements duration, safety factors, elements connections, critical speed and mechanical balancing, deformations, power transmissions, sizings and lifecycle calculations.

Instructor: Luis Maria Lopez

Mechatronics

This course explores the design of mechatronic components and equipment, their construction and function. Mechatronic integrates the engineering aspects of electronics, mechanics and microelectronics into an effective problem solving approach for many technological applications and industrial process.

Instructor: Luis Maria Lopez

Hydraulics & Pneumatics

This course presents industrial hydraulics and pneumatics, its system components, the design of hydraulic and pneumatic circuits, and its role in computer, robotics and electro-mechanical devices.

Instructor: Luis Maria Lopez

Mechanics: Statics

This course reviews static mechanics, force systems, equilibrium of particles and rigid bodies, center of gravity, areas, masses and volumes, inertia, friction, kinematics of particles, and the application of static mechanics to structures and machine elements.

Instructor: Luis Maria Lopez

Mechanics: Dynamics

This course reviews dynamic mechanics, the motion of rigid bodies, vibration, translation and rotation, impulse, momentum, work and energy, and the application of dynamic mechanics to projectiles, gyroscopes, machine elements, and other engineering systems.

Instructor: Luis Maria Lopez

Computer Integrated Manufacturing

This course explores manufacturing principles, metal cutting technology, and forms and methods of computer integrated manufacturing. It explains the planning, combination and design of machines, robots and control systems for handling equipment and manufacturing, and the integration of information and material flow in manufacturing to develop a successful computer integrated manufacturing strategy.

Instructor: Patrice Boisseau

Feed Back Control System

This course studies the design of digital control systems. It shows the operating principles and conventions for Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) using algorithms and Boolean (bit) logic to control systems containing digital sensors and actuators. It explains how to monitor and control analog processes and to exchange data with other PLCs and computers.

Instructor: Luis Maria Lopez

Microprocessors

This course studies the connection and operation of the components of microprocessors and interfaces. It examines the physical principles, design, and microfabrication technologies pertinent to input (sensor) and output (actuator) devices for multimedia, data process, interfaces and micro-electro-mechanical systems.

Instructor: Higinio Menendez Milanes

Mechatronic Design

This course explains the mechatronics design philosophy, and the key elements in the engineering design of mechatronic systems. Power, electronics, mechanical and hydraulic systems are combined and applied in the control of industrial, energetic and technological process.

Instructor: Luis Maria Lopez

Mechatronics Engineering

This course explores a wide diversity of mechatronic engineering applications, from the physical integration and miniaturization of electronic controllers with mechanical systems, to the control of hydraulically powered robots in manufacturing and assembly factories, including the design, production and procurement of the required electro-mechanical equipment.

Instructor: Luis Maria Lopez

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Professionally recognized and validated degrees.

Accredited (Non USA CHEA). International legalization available.

Non formal and independent education.