Welcome from the Director

"The Mechatronics Engineering Programme builds upon the strong engineering disciplines at the University of Canterbury, involving both Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Department of Mechanical Engineering. It offers coherent and integrative project-based mechatronics training, with emphases on theoretical and fundamental training as well as problem-solving skills..."
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2010 Enrolment Information - New Students

2010 Enrolment Information - Advancing UC Students

Mechatronics Students Seize Opportunity to Commercialise New Technology
Four student teams took part in the entrē Bright Ideas Workshop, each challenged with finding business opportunities for intellectual property conceived at the University of Canterbury. The winning team – Corey Weir, Tim Phillips and Jamie Robertson – looked at the commercial applications of the suction cup technology developed in the form of a wall-climbing robot by Prof. Xiaoqi Chen.  Read more >>

Best Student Paper award at IEEE Conference
Postgraduate research work "A novel wall climbing device based on Bernoulli effect" won the Best Student Paper Award in 2008 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA08), Beijing, China, October 12-15, 2008. The research was conducted by Mr. Matthias Wagner under the supervision of Associate Professor XiaoQi Chen. Mr. Matthias' presentation with the video clip "Wall climbing robot in action" was well received by the participants. As the Award Committee Chair commented, the work embodies a very innovative approach to overcome the difficulties for a robot to traverse on walls of different materials and surface conditions."

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