Mechatronics - 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 AAT 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.
Students pursuing an AAT or AAS-T 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 six quarters long, depending on the time students need to satisfactorily complete graduation requirements.
Admission Dates
Summer, fall, winter, and spring quarters.
Program Outcomes
• Employ safe practices while using fluid power, electrical, mechanical and control equipment.
• Analyze the transmission of power between electrical, mechanical and fluid power.
• Use digital and analogue controls on mechanical, electrical, fluid power, and hybrid systems.
• Construct complex machinery involving multiple forms of power and control.
• Troubleshoot mechatronic systems, including the complex interplay between different power and control variables.
• Validate new and emerging power, control, and communication technologies.
• Prioritize efficiency and environmental sustainability in mechatronic systems and processes.
• Prioritize social benefit from the perspective of mechatronic systems.
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.
Program Course List
Quarter 1 - Preparation
Program Core
AAT General Education Requirements: See list above.
Technical Electives:
| Mechatronics Elective Options (may be taken at discretion of student or advise of instructor) |
General Degree Requirements
AAT Degree General Education Requirements (18 credits)
ENGL& 101 English Composition
MATH& 141 Precalculus I
PSYC& 100DIV General Psychology, or other transferable social science or humanities course that meets the diversity requirement
COLL 102 College Success for All *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.
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