The BSIAM Studes...

The BSIAM students in one of their discussions with Professor Joel Barrera on one of their Mechatronics subjects.

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Young, Wacky but very promising.

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Industrial Motor Control Room of IACET, MSU-IIT

The Industrial Motor Control Room of the Industrial Automation and Controls Engineering Technology, Mindanao State University - Iligan Institute of Technology is the center of the education for Motors Circuits, Building Wiring, and Sequence Control and other related subjects for students. Trainings are conducted here for such fields either in lecture and/or practical application. Conventional hard-wired industrial motor control circuits are taken up like the simple start-stop circuit, dynamic braking circuit, forward-reverse control and extending up to controls like elevator systems with safety interlocking and to other fully systemized motor control operations. This is done by using magnetic contactors, relays, timers and other electromechanical devices.

In the advancement of the lessons, the student/practicioner will apply the said circuits learned using the conventional electromechanical circuits to using PLC as the processing unit for control. More advanced industrial circuits will be taken up using advance PLC programming. This will be done in actual practice and not just in lecture method.

The training offered here is of world-class quality for instructors and professors are trained in various known institutions worldwide.

For more information, contact Professor Cesar Gabo of IACET, MSU-IIT for more details. He is in-charge for these trainings. Feel free to contact him.

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The IACET Department of MSU-IIT

Some of our mentors from the Industrial Automation and Controls Engineering Technolology and Bachelor of Science in Industrial Automation and Mechatronics. They are experts in the field of fluid technology, motor controls, plant automation, instrumentation, process controls, PLC programming, mechatronic technology, electronics circuits and others related in the field. Two other professors are not shown here due to some reasons.

Awards and Achievements

The various projects made by the students of the said department.

One of rooms equipped with OEM trainers and simulators.

With such great training acquired by the students from this world class department, The industrial automation and controls engineering technology department boasts of a 99% employment rate locally and abroad within 1 year time since graduation. Non-employed students are due to reasons as continuing their studies to related fields or because of personal matters.

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What is Mechatronics?

Back in the early 1970s, Japanese industry coined the word Mechatronics in relation to the development of the world's first industrial robots. Robotics has since come to be regarded as a generic term, and yet it forms only a subset of Mechatronics, which still lacks recognition in some quarters as an indigenous term in our technological vocabulary. 'Mechatronics ' is a natural choice for explaining a process that seeks, from the outset, to generate definitive engineering system solutions, which are inextricably bound by those integrating technologies associated with the inveterate mechanical, electronic and computer based disciplines.

First and foremost Mechatronics should be seen to represent technology integration and not merely a combination of the primary disciplines. In fact, the 'fusion' of mechanical, electronic and computer based structures into a complete Mechatronics 'product' can only achieve its desired functionality through a process of systematic integration of all inherent disciplines involved right through from the conceptual stages. Invoking only mechanical electronic or computer-based entities would not in itself provide the complete system solution. In reality, Mechatronics opens up enormous technological possibilities, as already evidenced by the appearance of sophisticated products like ever-smaller camcorders and compact disc players. These would never have been plausible by adopting a traditional single disciplinary or combinational approach. By definition, then, Mechatronics is not a subject, science or technology per se - it is instead to be regarded as a philosophy - a fundamental way of looking at and doing things, and by its very nature requires a unified approach to its delivery.

The traditional western approach has relied on single discipline identities and evolutionary solutions based on bolt-on technology. On the other hand, Mechatronics solutions require the use of integrated teams of personnel working towards a common goal. Thus the Mechatronics engineer identifies with systems thinking, and a philosophy that lies behind it all. A Mechatronics 'product' derived through systematic, rather than piecemeal processing. It, therefore, seeks to optimize an 'engineered' solution rather than compromise it. Mechatronics philosophy adequately describes the process by which it is achieved. This insight quite naturally lends itself to the concept of 'total quality', something that western industrialized nations have only in the last decade or so come to aspire to. But for Mechatronics, quality is already implied by the way in which system based solutions are to be sought, and the methodologies used for achieving it. It is hoped that industry and commerce will similarly come to respect and aspire to Mechatronics for what it stands for - total synergy.

What do Mechatronics Engineers do?

Mechatronics combines mechanical, electrical and software engineering in the design, development and control of diverse systems used in a range of industries including manufacturing, medicine and the service industries. Examples of mechatronic systems include aircraft, dishwashers, motor vehicles, automated manufacturing plants, medical and surgical devices and systems, robots of all types, many toys, artificial organs and many others. Mechatronics engineers are therefore involved in almost every possible industry at levels from applications development to manufacturing to advanced research.

Where do Mechatronics Engineers work?

Graduates with a Mechatronics degree can take up careers in a wide spectrum of industries including robotics, aerospace, chemical, defence and automotive and manufacturing where complex software plays a major role, as well as in businesses that require extensive computer support, such as banking and commerce. Contributions can be made to these industries in a variety of roles including design engineer, software engineer, project planner, product designer and project manager.

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Bachelor of Science in Industrial Automation and Mechatronics Now Offered!

The Mindanao State University - Iligan Institute of Technology is now offering Bachelor of Science in Industrial Automation and Mechatronics ( BSIAM) under the Industrial Automation and Controls Engineering Technology Department, School of Engineering Technology.

Industrial Automation and Controls Engineering Technology graduates of the said university located in Iligan City, Philippines can proceed to pursue this course and finish it in a year's time. Additional major subjects to be enrolled if you are an IACET graduate are the following:

- Industrial Networking and its corresponding Lab. units
- Advance Industrial Computer Programming and Application and its corresponding Lab. units
- Human Machine Interface and its corresponding Lab. units
- Mechatronics I and its corresponding Lab. units
- Specialized Applied Mathematics
- Mechatronics II and its corresponding Lab. units
- Advance Industrial Process Control and its corresponding Lab. units
- Research Projects

Engineering Technology graduates of other fields of engineering can pursue BSIAM if they take on the following bridging major subjects prior to the formal BSIAM schooling:

- PLC Programming
- Process Control Systems and Instrumentation
- Fluid Power Technology
- Kinematics and Basic Machining

Anyone interested for further information regarding this subject matter may contact:

Industrial Automation and Controls Engineering Technology Department (IACET)
School of Engineering Technology,
Mindanao State University - Iligan Institute of Technology
Tibanga, Iligan City
Philippines 9200

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