Mechatronic Systems

ME 384 is where mechanical engineers stop treating electronics as a black box and start building the bridge between physical hardware and the code that controls it, working up from op-amps and transistors through digital logic to microcontrollers driving real actuators. Most of your time goes into lab sessions and a semester project where you prototype an actual electro-mechanical system, backed by two written midterms and a quiz on the theory. It sits at the junction where ME meets EE, and the microcontroller and sensor-interfacing instincts you build here are what later courses on control, robotics, and capstone design assume you already have.