Mechatronics Engineering An-Najah National University

Overview

In 2010 the Mechatronics Engineering curriculum has been refined to better serve the student population and to maintain a continuous improvement of the overall educational experiences. The major changes to the Mechatronics Engineering program of the An-Najah National University during the past four years include the following:

• The advisory plan of the mechatronics program was reduced two hours credit, so that it become in total 161 credit hours instead of 163 credit hours.

• Chemical Laboratory course (one credit hour) was added to the mechatronics plan program as well as applied Engineering Mathematics course (three credit hours)

• Microprocessor II for mechatronics course (three credit hours) became program elective course instead of department requirement.

• Material science for Mechatronics course was changed to two credit hours instead of three credit hours.

Industry

The program has a cooperation agreement with Padico Holding Company. This agreement allows students to visit different sites of the company and use different facilities. In addition some joined graduation projects are usually held out in Palestinian Industrial Investment Company which is one branch of Padico Company. Moreover, different graduation projects are cooperation with local industrial companies.

Teaching and Learning

The teaching and learning methods are:

• lectures inside the classroom: these lectures include presented the lectures on the class board or using power point software or using both of them together. Moreover, quizzes, homework and course project are included too.

Career Opportunities

The graduate students of the Mechatronics engineering program can work all factories as engineering designer or engineering maintenance, or engineering production lines. Also in vehicles companies, government institutions, elevator companies and all types of CNC machines and all Robotics types.