Ø Facilities and laboratories
The department runs and maintains several teaching laboratories that aim to provide students with the hands-on experience necessary for engineering practice. Efforts to integrate laboratory work with classroom instructions are continuously undertaken.
The teaching laboratories are supported by 7 engineers holding a bachelor’s degree in mechatronics engineering. Such staff is responsible for installing, running, maintaining, and operating the equipment. A description of the above-mentioned laboratories in the department is given below.
1. Mechatronics System Design Lab. (0908562):
• Description:
Application on Mechatronics system’s design concepts (mechanics, electronics, pneumatics, hydraulics, and control). Construction of Microcontroller’s based systems. Applications on motion control, Pneumatic actuator control, sensor interface …etc using microcontrollers. A detailed report should be submitted. Presentations of all groups' works are required.
2. Microprocessor and Microcontroller Lab. (0908432):
• Description:
Introduction to embedded systems design tools and hardware programmers. Experiments using both simulation and practical implementation of the basic building blocks of a microcontroller including timers, counters, PWM generation, I/O techniques and requirements, A/D conversion, serial communications. Experiments to explore the system design process using hardware-software co design process. Design project.
3. Automation and Process Control Lab. (0908562)
• Description:
Automation lab experiments concentrate on the concept studied in Course especially; Wiring & Programming different type of PLC on different Applications, Connect some types of PLC with SCADA system, CNC
4. Measurements and Transducer Lab. (0908432)
• Description:
Experimental methods on the following systems: pressure measurement, flow measurement, temperature measurement, strain gauges, strain rosettes. Signals display equipment and Function generators. Sensor Technologies, Characteristics, Signal conditioning & processing, Calibration.
5. Electronics Lab. for mechatronics (0908322):
• Description:
Rectification. Regulation and clipping. BJT characteristics. BJT biasing and large-signal amplification. BJT as an amplifier. FET as an amplifier. Cascaded amplifiers. Frequency response of amplifiers. Feedback amplifier. Differential amplifier. Op-Amp Applications. Projects.
6. Actuator Lab. (0908324):
• Description:
Transformer characteristics. Testing and operational characteristics of DC motors. Testing and operational characteristics of alternators. Testing and operational characteristics of induction motors. Modeling and simulation of electrical machines using Simulink with external mechanical loads.
7. Power Electronics and Drive Lab. (0908423):
• Description:
Introduction to the power electronic components (SCR, Diode, IGBT). Speed and torque control of a DC motor with a load. Inverter control of an induction motor. Modeling and simulation of electrical drives systems and electrical machines using Simulink with external mechanical loads.
8. Control Lab. (0908453):
• Description:
The lab consists of experiments that are related to: First and second order system analysis control experiments, Servo Systems, Stability of dynamical systems. System identification. Design and tuning of PID controller in closed-loop Systems. Simulation of systems using Simulink or Matlab.
9. Fluid Power Engineering Lab. (0908464):
• Description:
Applications of all hydraulic and pneumatic components (valves, pumps, linear and rotary motion). The students are introduced to symbols, circuits, the principle of design and construction. Modeling and design of hydraulic, electro-hydraulic, and pneumatic control circuits.
10. Computer Applications for Mechatronics (0908231):
• Description:
Introduction to Matlab; Script files (m); Variables; Strings; Arrays and vectors; Operators, expressions and statements; Decisions (if statements); Loops (for statements); Logical operators; Complex numbers; Operations on matrices; Plotting (two dimensional and three dimensional); Inputs and outputs; Functions; Engineering applications: practical exercises will be given on Matlab, with other softwares as necessary (e.g. Simulink, LabVIEW); Introduction to simulink