Associate of Applied Technology Degree
Mechatronics is a multidisciplinary approach combining mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, process control engineering, and software engineering into an integrated skill set for construction, repair, and optimization of complex industrial equipment. This makes it applicable to a wide range of growing industries including automation and robotics, advanced manufacturing, aerospace and transportation systems, process control, logistics and supply chain management, and agriculture.
Clover Park Technical College’s AAS-T Mechatronics degree provides the skills needed to succeed in this exciting field. The program begins with courses that establish a solid base of technical skills and an understanding of the various disciplines that make up mechatronics as well as lean manufacturing and quality standards. Courses are taught with an eye toward linking disciplines together for larger mechatronic systems. Subsequent courses then build expertise in the foundational skills while increasingly integrating all skills into the design, construction, optimization, maintenance, and repair of full mechatronics systems.
Student Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the Mechatronics degree, students will:
- Understand the necessary steps to plan, execute, and control a mechatronic system.
- Program, calibrate, configure, test, start up, and operate a mechatronic system.
- Understand mechatronics as the integration of multiple disciplines in industrial processes.
- Identify major application areas for mechatronics.
- Apply mechatronics in various manufacturing, scientific, and technical applications.
- Research and apply emerging and future mechatronics technologies.
General Degree Requirements
AAT Degree General Education Requirements (18 credits)
ENGL& 101
| | 5 |
| Or | |
CMST& 220
| | 5 |
| | |
| MAT 105 | Mathematics for Industrial Professionals | 5 |
PSYC& 100DIV
| | 5 |
| COLL 102 | College Success for All | 3 |
NOTE: CMST& 220 or higher
PSYC& 100DIV: PSY 112DIV, SOC& 101DIV, or other transferable social science or humanities course that meets the diversity requirement
COLL 102: must be taken in first 2 quarters
Students pursuing an AAT degree must complete all college degree requirements prior to graduation. This includes courses that meet the capstone-project, diversity, and computer-literacy requirements.
Program Length
This program is approximately five quarters long, depending on the time students need to satisfactorily complete graduation requirements.
Admission Dates
Summer, fall, winter, and spring quarters.
Completion Requirements
Prerequisite(s)
To enter the program, a student must be eligible to take college-level English and college-level psychology, or another social science or humanities course.
Any developmental coursework that a student may be required to take to achieve this may increase the program length and is not reflected in credit counts as shown below. Math sequences to meet this requirement must be planned with your advisor prior to program enrollment.
Students must be at least 17½ years of age at the start of the program.
Program Course List
Quarter 1 - Preparation
Program Core
| MEC 115 | DC Circuits | 5 |
| MEC 116 | AC Circuits | 5 |
| MEC 120 | Computer Aided Design I | 5 |
| MEC 125 | Hydraulics and Pneumatics | 5 |
| MEC 130 | Electric Motors and Drives | 5 |
| MEC 132 | Lean Manufacturing | 5 |
| MEC 135 | Digital Electronics and Networks | 5 |
| MEC 140CL | Computer Programming and Logic | 5 |
| MEC 150 | Mechanical Systems | 5 |
| MEC 160CL | Programmable Controls I | 5 |
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MEC 289CAP
| | 5 |
| Or | |
| MEC 290CAP | Mechatronics Capstone Project | 5 |
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| Mechatronics AAT Technical Electives | 5 |
| AAT General Education Requirements | 18 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 96 |
Mechatronics AAT Technical Electives: See list below
AAT General Education Requirements: See list above
Technical Electives:
Students must take 5 or more credits from the following courses. Other related courses may be approved by faculty.