Experiences with Mechatronics Education at the University of Twente

Abstract- This paper describes the experiences with a number of variants of mechatronic programmes offered by the University of Twente since 1989. Mechatronics education took place in a two-year Mechatronic Designer programme, in specialisations in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering and in an international MSc programme. In the new European BSdMSc structure the University of Twente will offer an MSc Mechatronics where the course language will be English. There have been large mechatronic projects, where 4 PhD and some 50 MSc students did their thesis work as well as two-week Mechatronic projects in the BSc curricula of EE and ME. The latter show that mechatronics is not only a topic of interest for students who want to specialise in this direction, but that mechatronic projects also offer a challenge for electrical and mechanical engineering students in general.