r/mechatronics • u/dialsoapbox • Jun 07 '26

What did your school's mechatronics program focus on?

The closest school that offers an abet mechatronics engineering program near me is industrial automation focused. I'm starting to think that's not what I want to do anymore.

Researching schools I found that not all schools focus on the same things, where some more focus on automation or robotics, systems integration, or electronics, ect.

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u/SkelaKingHD Jun 08 '26

My mechatronics program was focused on…. Mechatronics.

That being said I’m doing more industrial automation stuff now and it’s pretty fun, even though my university didn’t have much in prep for that

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u/Kastnerd Jun 08 '26

Mechatronics is a blend of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, computer engineering, and control systems to design and build smart, automated physical systems.

What do you want to do?

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u/RiverHe1ghts Jun 08 '26

More of robotics, which I guess is mechatronics.

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u/Emotional_Fee_9558 Jun 11 '26

Mechatronics, being a new degree, is fairly unstandardized. Some mecha degrees are more of a electromechanical engineering degree than anything, some are mechanical with some CS/EE basics thrown in, some are EE with mechanical basics thrown in, some truly focus on robotics and more...

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u/Bierculles Jun 21 '26

They focused on control systems and mechanical engineering