The global engineering academic community is witnessing an explosive growth in the number of programs and courses in mechatronics. They take the form of options or electives within conventional departments, or as fully realized programs and departments. This is not surprising as society is inundated with chatter about the “Internet of Things”, robotics, drones, etc. Additionally, within the engineering profession, the computer control of complex engineering systems is now firmly entrenched in a principal framework for increasing the precision, performance, efficiency, and decreasing the cost of modern systems. Understandably, the mechatronics programs are part of the academic response to these trends.
