Department of Mechatronic Engineering

Mechatronic Engineering is a discipline that is concerned with Electronic, Mechanical and Computing systems. The integration of these disciplines enables the development of a wide variety of innovative technologies such as robotics, automation machinery, monitoring systems, renewable energy technologies etc.

The department of Mechatronic Engineering in the Institute of Technology Sligo focus the adaption of this skills to three main areas. These are:

• Robotics and Automation / Mechatronic Engineering – These programmes aims to produce graduates with skill sets that apply to the automation of industrial and manufacturing systems.
• Polymer Processing – The suite of online programmes up skill graduates to the control and processing of various polymer materials as well as the role of design of plastic parts and tool parts.
• Data Centres Facilities Engineering – The data centres programme was developed in collaboration with Google, Facebook and Microsoft and  equips learners with the mechatronic skills to develop monitoring and control systems for the efficient and safe operations of a data centres facility.

Staff in our department are actively involved in national and international research with areas of application in the area of autonomous vehicles, environmental and renewable energies, agriculture and material processing.

The department is very linked with industry and we have organisations such as First Polymer SkillNet , Google and Facebook on our advisory boards. Our graduates are highly skilled and sought after in their respective fields and we offer delivery both online and full time with the largest online programme in the area of Mechatronic Engineering.