<p>i just wanted to ask what do you think about mechatronics because i want to take a decision about my major but i think that it might be to hard and also wanted to ask about its career opportunities</p>
<p>As a MechE, our professors stressed heavily on how important Mechatronics will be in the future. This stems from the increasing overlap between MechE/EE in regards to control systems, which is a pivotal subject. Also since EE circuit analogs have such versatile use, it is quite important for other engineers to grasp such concepts.</p>
<p>Recently, my school dropped the watered down "Circuits for non-EE" class and instead desigend a new Mechatronics class that has more depth than most sophmore EE classes.</p>
<p>What's coverede in your mechatronics class? I think that would be very rigorous, to cover basic circuits and electronics + controls in a semester!</p>
<p>Mechatronics (and lab) covered:</p>
<p>"Theory and application of electrical circuits, electronics, and electromechanical devices; concepts in electrical power transmission; instrumentation; feedback; integration of electronics and instrumentation with mechanical engineering systems (mechatronics)."</p>
<p>The main nastiness in the class were the higher order time variant circuits as well as the numerical methods techniques, which were a FAR CRY from the FE based circuits class we usually take. We do have a seperate Dynamics System and Controls class but since most of DSC is just the extension of a circuit diagram to a bode diagram/bond graph, the techniques used to solve the circuits in Mechatronics proved useful.</p>