Mechatronic Systems Atlantic Technological University

Overview

Mechatronic Systems  programme from the Atlantic Technological University  students spend three days per week in the workplace and two days per week studying online with ATU Sligo, Ireland’s largest and most experienced institute in online learning.

Students learn how to analyse, design, and control the type of machines and processes that are used, for example, in biomedical, automotive manufacture and high-speed automation. Mechatronic Systems graduates are equally at home in the mechanical or electronic domain and are specialists in interfacing computer-controlled systems.

This “work-based” version of our highly popular campus programme will also give students a huge amount of work experience and exposure to real-world problems. This means our graduates are highly valued employee for any manufacturing employer.

Career Opportunities

Graduates of this programme are essentially Robotics or Industrial Automation engineers. However, the integrated skills developed in this mechatronics programme can be applied to a variety of jobs, enabling students to have a very promising career in the biomedical, pharmaceutical, electronics, food processing and manufacturing sectors. Graduates from this degree have the interdisciplinary approach necessary to integrate electronics, control, software and mechanical engineering.