Mechatronics Working Group
The Mechatronics Working Group has recently merged with the Mechatronics Forum to become the Mechatronics Working Group. The Group will focus on covers all aspects of mechatronics. The WG will continue all the previous functions of the forum and will also be responsible for liaisons with IET in respect of the Mechatronics and Robotics Professional Network.
23-25 June 2008 Mechatronics 2008 Limerick, Ireland
Mechatronics Forum
Mechatronics is the unity of mechanical engineering, computer engineering, electronics, embedded control and information sciences to sustain good design practise.
The growing importance of Mechatronics, a truly multidisciplinary approach to engineering, is becoming increasingly apparent.
New products and systems based on the integrated application of mechanical, electronic and computing engineering technologies are demonstrating reduced mechanical complexity, increased performance, and often, previously impossible capabilities. These advantages have been stimulated by factors including developments in microprocessors, new and improved sensors and actuators, advances in design and analysis methods, simulation tools and novel software techniques.
The Group's interests cover all areas of mechatronics, within the mechanical engineering framework. It key aims are to promote relevant education and training, support the development of research programmes and diffuse information relating to the application of techniques across all industrial sectors. The mechatronics philosophy will further explain what mechatronics is all about.
As mechatronics is quite a specialised area, there are necessary requirements to fulfil in order to engage in its work. Want to be a Mechatronics Engineer? will provide you with an overview of what these entail.
Activities of the Mechatronics Forum include technical visits and mechatronics news. Past mechatronics events along with the synopses of papers and presentations are available here.
Committee Members
The current members of the IMechE Mechatronics Forum are drawn from a variety of academic institutions.
Chairman
Prof Geoff Roberts
Control Theory & Applications Centre, School of Mathematics & Information Sciences, Coventry University
Vice Chairman
Prof Philip Moore
Computing sciences & Engineering, De Montfort University
Committee
Dr Memis Acar
Senior Lecturer, Dept Of Mechanical Engineering, Loughborough University
Prof. Job van Amerongen
Control Engineering, Electrical Engineering Department, University of Twente
Professor David Bradley
CCT, University of Abertay Dundee
Prof. Hendrik Von Brussel
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Mechanical Engineering Department
Prof J S Dai
Robotics Chair of the Centre for Mechatronics and Manufacturing Systems Department of Mechanical Engineering, King’s College London
Dr Abbas Dehghani
School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds
Prof James Robert Hewit (Honorary Member)
Dept of P E M E, University of Dundee
Prof Michael R Jackson
Senior Lecturer in Mechatronics, Mechatronics Research Centre, Loughborough University
Professor Richard King
Associate Professor for Mechatronics, University of Canterbury
Eur Ing John H Milbank
Prof. Andrew R. Plummer
Director, Centre for Power Transmission and Motion Control, University of Bath
Ken Rotter
London Southbank
Prof David Russell (International Member
Senior Division Head, Engineering Penn State Great Valley
Dr Daniel Toal
Mobile & Marine Robotics Group, Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering, University of Limerick
Dr Steve Welch
Director, UCL Centre for Advanced Instrumentation Systems
University College, London
Dr. Xiu-Tian Yan,
Design Department of Design, Manufacture and Engineering Management, James Weir Building, University of Strathclyde
Prof Saeed Zahedi
Technical Director, Chas A Blatchford & Sons Ltd
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