Master in Mechatronics
VSB - Technical University of Ostrava
Key Information
Campus location
Ostrava, Czech Republic
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
2 years
Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
CZK 50,000 / per semester **
Application deadline
Request info *
Earliest start date
Sep 2024
* English 1st round: October 31, Czech 2nd round: July 31
** tuition fee is 4000 EUR per academic year, payable at the beginning of each academic year. It is non-refundable.
Introduction
Do you waver between mechanical or electrical engineering or IT? You don’t have it already!
Mechatronics is the up-to-date connection of fine mechanics, electronics, and intelligent computer control systems.
Each modern product can be practically called a mechatronic system. You can find a job in mechanical or electrical engineering, robotics, biomedicine, and the next related branches.
During the studies, you learn to design, test, and also to control mechatronic systems, which scan the signals from the environment (temperature, position, velocity, pressure, sound, image, etc.), are able to process them, and transform them into the control signal, which finally controls the, for example, the movement of the robot or production machine.
You will learn to design them as an advanced product characterized by the use of artificial intelligence, interactivity or autonomous behavior.
Key facts
- Faculty: Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
- Type of Study: Follow-up Master
- Language of instruction: English
- Code of the program: N0714A270004
- Title of the program: Mechatronics
- The regular period of the study: 2 years
- Cost: 50,000 CZK per semester
- Coordinating department: Department of Control Systems and Instrumentation
- Coordinator: prof. Ing. Petr Noskievič, CSc.
Program Outcome
Study aims
The goal of the study programme Mechatronics is to prepare the graduates for R&D activities in the field of Mechatronics, to be able to design mechatronic systems for the applications in different productions and for different technologies. The profile of the graduate involves the methods of the integrated design of the mechatronic system, that consists of mechanical subsystem, electrical subsystem, actuators and control system. The graduates know the methods of computer aided design, mathematical modelling and computer simulation as well as control systems design.
Graduate's knowledge
The graduates of the study program Mechatronics have the knowledge important for the design of mechatronic systems. They know a lot about automatic control systems, applied mechanics, electronics and microprocessor systems, measurements and signal processing.
They have experience with electrical, hydraulic and pneumatic drives and their control systems, next with measurements and sensors and diagnostic signal processing.
Graduate's skills
The graduates are able to analyze the dynamic properties of the complex structure systems and use the methods of mathematical-physical modeling and simulation of dynamic systems. They know, how to use the CAD software for the design of mechatronic systems, control algorithms and software for data acquisition, monitoring and visualization of technological processes. They are ready to design the measurement of important variables of the mechatronic system and to design the identification experiment of the dynamic properties of the controlled systems. Based on the dynamic analysis they are able to design the control system using PLC, industrial PC or embedded control systems.
Graduate's general competence
The knowledge from the electrical, mechanical, and control systems makes it possible to take into account the complex structure of the mechatronic system and consider the interactions of different dynamic subsystems during the design phase of the new mechatronic system and use the suitably designed control system to achieve the desired dynamic properties of the final mechatronic system. The graduates are ready for teamwork, to discuss technical problems with other specialized groups.
Career Opportunities
Graduate's employment
Interdisciplinary education is a great advantage for the future work of graduates in different areas in mechanical and electrical engineering. The graduates can become members of the project teams and are ready to start their professional careers in research and development in engineering, automotive industry, IT and production of different kinds.
Professions
- Academic staff member
- R&D engineer
Hard skills
- Programming of industrial PLC applications
- Process simulation
- Work in MATLAB and Simulink
- Basics of spectral analyses
- Knowledge of mathematical models
- Programming of industrial PCs
- Industrial automation
- Measurement of electrical and non-electrical quantities
- SW - MATLAB/Simulink (creation of simulation models and system simulation)
- Control electronics (control systems with microprocessors)
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Admissions
Program Tuition Fee
Curriculum
Semester 1
Compulsory
- Automatic Control Theory
- CAD II
- Functions of Complex Variable and Integral Transformations
- Introduction to Programming
- Measurement and Sensor Devices
- Safety in Electrical Engineering I
- Switching Semiconductor Technique
Optional
- Czech Language for Foreign Degree Students a/I
Semester 2
Compulsory
- Applied Mechanics
- Development and Realization of Control Algorithms
- Fluid Elements and Systems
- Microcomputer Control Systems
- Signal Processing
- Systems Identification and Simulation
- Term Project I
- Term Project I
Optional
- Czech Language for Foreign Degree Students a/II
Semester 3
Compulsory
- Control of fluid actuators
- Control Systems using Computers
- Electrical Controlled Drives
- Ethical Questions of Modern Science
- Non-Conventional Methods of Mechatronical Systems Control
- Robots and Manipulators
- Term Project II
- Term Project II
Mandatory B-type elective
- Control Systems in Engineering
- Real-Time Systems in Mechatronics
- Servodrives of Low Power
Optional
- Czech Language for Foreign Degree Students a/III
- Practical Training 1
- Practical Training 2
- Practical Training 3
- Practical Training 4
- Practical Training 5
Semester 4
Compulsory
- Diploma Project
- Diploma Project
- Mechatronic Systems Projection
Mandatory B-type elective
- Advanced Methods of Automatic Control
- Computer-aided measurement in Mechatronics
Optional
- Czech Language for Foreign Degree Students a/IV