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Welcome to Mechatronic Machine Design course!
Update 23.12.2021: We go to online. Given the working online course last year, students' wishes and government's advisory, we'll have online realisation in 2022. Preliminary exam opens tomorrow. The DL is on the 2nd week. Hannu Mäkinen from ideal PLM confirmed visiting lecture on 18.1.2022.
The course will start with a lecture on Tuesday the 11th of January at 9:15 in Teams. This semester whole course is fully-remote, completely online and no presence at the campus is required. The
course includes preliminary exam, lectures, weekly exercises,
laboratory exercises and a project work. The course has no final exam.
The final grade consists of the combined points from the lecture quizzes, exercises, labs and project work. It is good
if you have completed Mechatronics Basics before enrolling on this Mechatronic
Machine Design course. Passing Mechatronic Machine Design is required before enrolling in Vehicle Mechatronics: Control and Vehicle Mechatronics: Powertrain courses.
Questions and communication
If you have any questions or comments, please use Teams channels to do so. Use the group chats (=channels) rather than sending direct messages, as it creates a better sense of community and your concern is
most likely answered faster and everyone gets the same info.
The Microsoft teams key for the course is: 1r3kabq
Use the code as depicted in the picture below to join the team.
Grades 2022 File Excel 2007 spreadsheet
Weekly activities
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Deadline of last week's exercise Lecture in Teams, 9:15-11:00 Exercise help in Teams, 9:15-11:00 Independent work Exercise help in Teams, 9:15-11:00 Lecture quiz Course content and scheduleWk
Lecture
Exercise
Other
1
Introduction to the course
Background of mechatronics
Mechatronic design processLearning / re-cap of Matlab
2 Dynamic systemsFrequency and time domain analysisLaplace transform, Transfer function, Impulse and step responses, Basics of dynamic models
Preliminary exam deadline
Release of project work
3
Electronics and controlOperational amplifier circuits, AD & DA conversion, Bode diagram
4
Common control topologies
PID controller
Control applicationsCommon control topologies, PID controller, Control applications
Project work startup submission deadline Sun 6th February
5
Preparing for project workMechatronic system simulation
6
Project work wrap up /galaSummary of the course, Students’ reflections: what we learnt, Mutual feedbackNo exercises
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7
No exercises
Project work deadline Sun 27th February
Course completed
2 point for official course feedback
Grading
More detailed version of the grading, workload estimations etc. can be found in weboodi. To pass the course, 50% of the points is required from all the categories listed below.
- Preliminary exam: pass/fail
- Grade from lecture quiz: weight 20 %, scale 1...5, 50 % of the points required to pass
- Grade from exercises including lab exercises: weight 50 %, scale 1...5, 50 % of the points required to pass
- Grade from project work: weight 30 %, scale 1...5, 50 % of the points required to pass
Provided that the preliminary exam and the minimum requirements above have been passed, the grading of the course will be the following:
- 50 % of the total points: grade 1,
- 60 %: grade 2
- 70 %: grade 3
- 83 %: grade 4, and
- 93 %: grade 5.Disclaimer: These limits are set in stone and there are no extra assignments to increase your points after submitting your course assignments (such as quizzes, exercises, project work). Furthermore, do not trust the total points shown to you by MyCourses, as it is displaying often the wrong number until the end of the course and after teacher's have double-checked all submissions.
DeadlinesThe preliminary exam will be a multiple choice exam during the 2nd week of the course.
The lecture quiz deadlines are during the same day with the corresponding lecture. Everyone has the right to answer lecture quiz. Answering the lecture quiz is likely to be easier if you have attended the lectures.
The exercises will be due before the next lecture.
The project work will be due by the end of the sixth week.
Course staff and appointments
Responsible teacher: Prof. Kari Tammi
Assistants: Postdoctoral researcher Riku Ala-Laurinaho
The course staff can be met after lectures. Please, fix the appointment beforehand.
If you want to know what courses you should be taking before or after this course, check out this list of recommended courses for mechatronics engineers.
- General news and announcements posted by the course staff.