ME 345 Mechatronics

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The primary and only required textbook is Rowell and Wormley, 1997. The other books are optional, but supply additional information and exercises. Horowitz and Hill, 2015 is a book everyone interested in getting serious about electronics should read.

1. [AL] Agarwal, A. and J. Lang. Foundations of Analog and Digital Electronic Circuits. , The morgan kaufmann series in computer architecture and design Elsevier Science.
2. [HH] Horowitz, P. and W. Hill. The Art of Electronics. Cambridge University Press.
3. [RW] Rowell, Derek and David N. Wormley. System Dynamics: An Introduction. Prentice Hall.

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My lecture notes with fill-in-the-blanks are available at the following links:

Electronics Primer

A primer on electronics with a focus on analog circuit analysis.

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EP

System Dynamics

System dynamics for engineers. Lumped-parameter, linear graph modeling. Energy domains: mechanical translational, mechanical rotational, electrical, thermal, and fluid.

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SD

We'll do the entire EP text and the first four chapters of SD.

Have a service such as that of the SMU Computer Resource Center print them in bulk for you (start with EP for now). Whichever printing service you use, I recommend binding them such that pages can be replaced (e.g. three-ring bindable) in case there are major revisions to a section during the term.

In either case, you are required to have a binder (or equivalent) with Electronics Primer sections 1.1–1.3 ready to show by our second class to avoid a 10% deduction on your first homework grade. (Or you can show me those lectures on your note-taking tablet, if that's your preferred method.)

Throughout the semester, you should be ready to show these (current) in any class, with threat of 10% homework grade deductions.

Before every class, there will be one or more video lectures you will be required to watch! See the Schedule. I've uploaded them all to YouTube. Watch them with the texts printed out , filling in the blank sections as you go.

I recommend familiarizing yourself with the playlists for this course.

The following schedule is tentative. Bonus lectures denoted "+" are optional, but so is this class.

See the following assignments.

We will be mentoring local high school robotics teams, who will be participating in the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) game. This will involve attending their meetings to provide guidance and support. They will be working in our Panowicz Foundry Robotics Lab. Schedule TBD.

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